Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statehood forces are encouraged -not awed-by such statistics. They see Alaska as resources waiting for resourcefulness, as a challenge to be met better by home government than by the Interior Department, 3,500 miles away in Washington. For more than anything else, statehood is a matter of heart, a spirit singing. In the cities, in the countless villages that all but defy outside contact, the zest to build and to carve something fresh and distinctive beats with the same kind of pioneer's pulse that drove the trail blazers of the continental West...
...have in the past clashed, and even been hurt [but] what do such personal differences matter in the drama that today tears apart the motherland...
...first European blush, Gromyko's action seemed to be a match for Secretary Dulles' famed 1956 abrupt withdrawal of U.S. aid to finance Nasser's Aswan Dam. Actually, the Soviet switch was an entirely different matter. Where the U.S. had only withdrawn an offer (which had gone seven months without being accepted, while Nasser tried to wangle better terms), the Russians were reneging on an agreement signed and sealed...
...diploma from Paris' Cordon Bleu cooking school, discussed his newly acquired souffle secrets with the New York Times: "Egg whites are beaten by hand with a wire whisk or not at all. You beat and beat. Of course, you may drop dead in the end, but no matter. I don't understand why American cookbooks state 'beat until stiff but still moist.' That's nonsense. We beat the daylights out of them and turn out the finest souffles you've ever tasted...
...next parabola was equally simple: divide 4.5 into 22. Determined to take a short cut and do it in my head, I goofed, gave the wrong answer: 5. The third parabola's problem (adding five numbers up to four digits) was no trouble. It was all probably a matter of getting used to the conditions...