Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dangers of the U.S.S.R.'s "intensive economic offensive," and Secretary of State Dulles took three opportunities to stress, with deep earnestness, the U.S. determination to meet Russia's threat in aid to underdeveloped lands. Even as they talked, the Soviet Union accented the urgency of the matter by probing energetically for economic openings and weaknesses in South America...
...already been hammered out by the press. But there were thrilling shots of an Atlas test failure, of the Titan ("the most sophisticated long-range missile") resting ominously on its pad. And CBS gave viewers the kind of peek inside bustling missile plants that newspapers do not provide. In matter-of-fact interviews, U.S. scientists and generals pulled no punches. Warned Air Force Missileman General Bernard Schriever: "It's safe to say the Russians have IRBMs now in operational units...
...hero the most popular mummy in Brooklyn. As callers swarmed on him, Dr. Cooney explained: "We still can't get rid of it. We've had requests for it from all over the world, and it would take a Solomon to make a decision. Also, as a matter of fact, I'm getting rather fond of it." But when a colleague suggested that the museum display it in a show next fall, Dr. Cooney, keeping his standards high, retorted: "Over my dead body." camera on a high crane zoomed from a great distance upon a spotlighted Betty...
...rarely composes any more, Trumpeter Davis recently sketched some music for a French movie entitled Lift to the Gallows ("about a man who has committed the perfect crime-until he got stuck in an elevator"). In Europe he is perhaps the most widely imitated modern U.S. jazzman. No matter how closely young musicians may listen to him, Davis hates to take a backward look at his work. "You always see how you would have done it different," he says. "If you play good for eight bars, it's enough-for yourself...
...Lieut. Hans Teichmann is sketchily drawn; nothing is told of his background, and-except for his sensations when he is drunk, or in rut, or in pain-little of his thoughts. He is brave; some of the others are cowardly, but courage and the lack of it do not matter; nor does brutality or kindness. The meaninglessness of war swallows everything. West German Novelist Ott is writing about men engulfed by the dark millennium Yeats foretold when "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...