Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Force. He could not do it under law, he admitted, and there had been no thought of any such move anyhow. Said Johnson humbly: "I want you to know that before any step of this kind would be seriously considered, I should ask permission to discuss the matter before the committees of both houses of Congress...
Potter notes: "No matter how wild Lifeman's quiet insertion may be, it is enough to create a pause, even a tiny sensation . . . To break the winning vein, break the flow...
Elsewhere in Europe the weather was better on the first of May, but everywhere the Communists' annual spring rites seemed dampened and dull. Europe's Communists were still reeling from the blow of the Atlantic Treaty. No matter how loudly party leaders shouted, the Russians had backed down in Berlin. Some observers believed that this was the big break-that Russia was in fact suing for a settlement in Europe to devote all her energies to the Red drive in Asia...
...Harmonies. Smuts's argument sounded logical enough, but ordinary logic does not rule the Commonwealth. Britain and the other Commonwealth nations wanted India in the family, no matter how nebulous the arrangement. For over a week, the Ministers debated the issue with India's sad-eyed Prime Minister
...little man had yet to learn that democracy was not a matter of bowing to any idol but of standing straight and free as a responsible citizen. Unless this lesson sank in, the little man would easily stray from the road of the democrats to the road of the Communists, who had new idols all ready...