Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brevard Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is aggressively dissatisfied with the answers the committee is getting from the Pentagon on U.S. defense policy. "Say, tell me about Dick Russell," said Ike to an aide. "I thought he was a friend of mine. What's the matter with him? Why is he sore at us?" Answered the astonished aide: "Why, Mr. President, you can't expect him to be very happy over the Little Rock situation and use of Federal troops." "Golly," said Ike of the man who last summer directed the Southern attack on civil...
...offer missiles to any NATO members that want them, but nuclear warheads for the missiles will be held in U.S. custody "only a few feet" from the launching platforms. The missiles could be armed at the first sign of attack, but the decision to use them would be a matter of mutual agreement. The French or Germans will need U.S. consent to use the warheads, and the U.S. will need French or German consent to use the missiles which carry the warheads...
...With a matter-of-factness bred of wartime blitz experience, trackside residents were on the job administering first aid before the first ambulances groped their way to the terrible scene. The injured and dying were given first aid in kitchens and parlors as families worked together through the night, trying to rescue victims, many of whom were irrevocably trapped in the twisted steel. In a public bath, rows of bodies were laid out under blankets; under one white sheet stood a bucket containing a head and three legs. Hour after hour, the casualties were totted up in hospitals and mortuaries...
...passengers and crewmen had forcibly prevented Dutch captains from diverting Dutch-owned ships into "neutral ports." The Indonesian government ordered its 5,000 nationals in The Netherlands to leave at once. In Paris, Foreign Minister Subandrio declared that a complete break in Indonesian-Dutch diplomatic relations was "only a matter of time...
...still be a good way off, but it moved a little closer last week. For its fourth international art contest, Hallmark Cards had made eminently sensible rules. The 50 contestants, from a total of 16 countries, were all invited to compete with a free choice of subject matter. The results, on view at Manhattan's Wildenstein gallery, therefore combined quality with diversity...