Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...INTENSE FEELING IN THIS MATTER RESULTS FROM RECENT TRIP MADE TO GREECE, WHEN AT GENERAL VAN FLEET'S INVITATION ACCOMPANIED HIM ON VISIT TO FIGHTING FRONTS. FROM FIRST-HAND OBSERVATIONS, LEARNED GREECE IS FIGHTING COMMUNISTS IN FULL-SCALE ALL-OUT WAR WHICH IS MOST VIOLENT AND RUTHLESS IN HER HISTORY. TRUE TO HER TRADITION, GREECE AGAIN FIGHTS TO PRESERVE WESTERN DEMOCRATIC CIVILIZATION...
Johnson rattled off a whole list of projects designed to get unification of the services in form, if not in fact. In a matter of months, he announced, he hoped to have the top brass of the three services and 12,000 underlings relocated in new, chummy quarters in the Pentagon, a shift once estimated as a two-to three-year job. He ordered the Air Force's General Joseph T. McNarney to shake down the hundreds of duplicating and overlapping service boards and agencies. Four days later Johnson wiped out nine service boards as unnecessary. He made...
...pins, two chisels, 100 fuse-type blasting caps and four electric blasting caps with wires. He tapped the battery in the breast pocket of his leather jacket and hoped he wouldn't have to use it, because a well-grounded safe man hates to blast; it is a matter of professional pride...
Reaction to the April Fool stunt was mostly favorable-though a few readers berated Pageant for joking about such a serious matter as the atom bomb. Said Editor Shevelson: "I hope the April Fool issue will become an annual thing...
...timely subject matter adds interest rather than importance to the play. The Traitor has its serious side: there is some intelligent discussion, and even, in the person of Walter Hampden, a probing professor of philosophy. But as it proceeds, the play becomes more & more a stock thriller, until the tricks of the traitors become indistinguishable from tricks of the trade. Playwright Wouk does little to plumb the presumably complex mind of his young scientist. After giving every indication that Carr is to be the center of a serious drama, the author makes him little more than an instrument...