Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made it plain that it was all a matter of passion rather than propaganda, and that she was more to be pitied than censured. When her attorney asked her in courtly tones if she had ever "intended to adhere to the enemy," she replied throatily: "Anyone who knows me knows it isn't true...
...made Cheke's own maxims hard going for an embarrassed British Foreign Service. In Washington, the British embassy hastily checked its Chekes safely behind locked doors; in London, Ernest Bevin was "very cross about it," and Marcus Cheke let it be known he was "most angry." As the matter closed, a last-minute addendum was casually spoken by Sir George William Rendel, the British ambassador to Belgium. "If you serve vodka to the gentleman you're trying to swindle," quipped Sir George, "he recovers his suspicions the next morning. But if you ply him with Scotch, he doesn...
...still used in much of Egypt. It is no good for growing cotton and other long-season crops, so it has been supplanted in the lower valley by dams and canals that make year-round irrigation possible. For the modern system, the irregularity of the Nile is a serious matter. During the annual flood, much water goes out to sea unused; during the rest of the year, there is not enough water. A great deal more acreage could be devoted to the valuable long-season crops if the Nile could be forced to flow steadily all the year round...
...Therefore we see that the universe is one, just as the economist is now discovering that there is a high degree of interdependence between nations; that one nation cannot continue in prosperity unless the other nations are also prosperous. The Marshall Plan is not a matter of Christian charity at all," he concluded...
...administration is neither justifiable nor in good taste. No one can believe that the RAYD has been forced out of existence by hostile authorities. The RAYD in effect chose to disband by rejecting a sensible solution to the problem of secret membership. Whatever bad faith is involved in the matter lies squarely on the Youth for Democracy, not on the rest of Radcliffe...