Word: matter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talking seriously because I have come here with serious intentions, and you try to reduce the matter to simply a joke. It is a question of war or peace between our countries, a question of the life or death of the people...
Classes had been going for a week at the Edgar Allen Poe elementary school in well-to-do south Houston. But the principal, Mrs. R. E. Doty, took it as a matter of course when a slight, pleasant man in sports shirt and slacks walked into the school lobby at 10 o'clock one morning last week and announced that he wanted to register his sandy-haired, seven-year-old, Dusty, in second grade. She was only mildly surprised when Paul Harold Orgeron, 47, said sheepishly that he had just come to town and did not know his address...
...civilians who ever came to work in the five-ring circus of the Pentagon, none was more roundly disliked as a matter of principle than handsome, brainy Wilfred James McNeil. The reason was understandable enough: McNeil, hand-picked in 1947 by Defense Secretary James Forrestal to be the new National Military Establishment's first comptroller, had the job of supervising the drawing up and spending of the defense budget. He was the man who had to slice the budgetary pie among the three services-each of which naturally wanted the biggest piece -and then explain and defend the budget...
...arrogant," boomed well-loved "Papa" Heuss when the German Institute for Men's Fashion complained that he had prescribed "dark suit" rather than "white tie" for the inaugural reception that followed the telecast. "I have advised Dr. Liibke not to knuckle down to the dictatorship of associations, no matter who they...
...Because of our ignorance in this matter, I see no adequate grounds for either affirming or denying the existence...