Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Koreans, oppressed for the last 40 years by Japanese masters, although they conducted an underground government aimed at the sabotage of Nipponese imperialism and have assisted the American occupation for as long as they could conscientiously believe in it, still are given a polite brushoff whenever they broach the matter of entry into...
Twice Acheson repeated his theme: "The interest of the U.S. and of all the hundreds of millions of people throughout the world in peace is so fundamental that the matter of peace cannot be tampered with and cannot be used as an instrument in any international political maneuver. It will not be so used by the U.S." He added pointedly: "If I on my part were seeking to give assurance of seriousness of purpose, I would choose some other channel than the channel of a press interview...
...whole trouble, Harry Truman thought, was just a matter of semantics (see EDUCATION). "Instead of the word 'planning,' the people who find fault with us when we talk about planning for economic purposes are thinking about controlled economy, not planned economy. The distinction is different, if you analyze it closely...
...matter how important the security program is, any aspect of it that assumes a man is a Communist simply because his name is linked with Communists is faulty. In Graham's case, such "evidence" was so obviously misleading that the AEC eventually ignored it as inconclusive. With less well-known people, on the Navy Yard draftsman or Oak Ridge chemist level, it is still damning. It would undoubtedly require a lot more work to dig down well past a man's clubs and organizations and friends and find out if he is a Communist or not. But this work...
...committee decided that the process would take too much time and let the matter drop...