Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hollow Stand. After handing out the Adams statement, Press Secretary Hagerty fought doggedly through two press conferences to defend Adams before a White House press corps in full cry. Hagerty hewed hard to the line laid down by Adams: no influence was exerted, so the hotel hospitality was a matter of personal and private friendship...
...Chairman," cried Georgia's plain-spoken Carl ("Swamp Fox") Vinson, "this is the first time in my 44 years as a member of Congress, 25 years as chairman of committees presenting defense legislation, that I have seen a matter involving our national security become a subject of partisan politics...
...speaker after two hours of shrill argument and ill-tempered accusations, and once again he threw his change-up. He was glad, he said, to be part of such a democratic process. He was sure the people were sick and tired of hearing about Chavez Ravine, and, as a matter of fact, so was he. "I'm not going to be angry with anyone," he said, "no matter which side loses." He looked and acted like a dumpy, fatherly man who could forgive his children their mistakes...
Though the opposition did not recognize it, they had just watched the third strike go by. It did not matter that the margin of victory was narrow-345,435 to 321,142. "In baseball" said Walter, "a win by 1-0 is as good...
...quarterly, Thought, Fordham University's Assistant Professor Robert W. Gleason, S.J., investigates Satan's kingdom in the light of modern thought. Says Theologian Gleason: "A combination of sentimentality, secular humanism and determinism have produced their own bitter fruit ... It is no longer generally believed, to put the matter bluntly, that man is capable of choices that could bring him to eternal death." There is the additional difficulty of specific references to fire. "To many it appears that for God to plunge the soul into a sea of fire [suggests] a vindictive God who takes joy in torturing...