Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Laughing Matter" strikes me as a piece of journalistic writing such as even your skilled hands rarely come up with...
...Matter of Batting. In the midst of Russia's dangerous mixture of bluster and acknowledged technological performance, the free world can take considerable satisfaction from the fact that the U.S. Air Force is in command of a brilliant, unobtrusive West Pointer with a flair for understatement. Tommy White, 56, a tall, austere airman with a ramrod-back carriage, well knows the Russian danger, well knows the need to tighten and use the bomber force-in-being to best advantage while the U.S. brings in its missile force...
...seemed a sure result as the U.S. Tariff Commission began hearings this week in Washington on tariffs for imported lead and zinc. Heavy administration pressure was on the commission to raise the tariffs; President Eisenhower promised last August that he would request it to "expedite its consideration of the matter." Even before the hearings began, anguished complaints came from Canada, Peru and Mexico...
...hemisphere producers are grumbling loudly. "I've always felt [the Americans] were fair-weather friends," said an official of the Canadian Metal Mining Association. "When the pinch is on-wham! Someone starts talking tariffs." Peruvians say that any tariff hike, no matter how small, will put most of the country's lead and zinc producers out of business, cost the country 14% of its export income...
...painter's cheeky, in-on-the-swindle valet. Coward buzzes about while the dead man's family try to hush things up and cope with the actual painter-and potential blackmailer. Then it turns out that there was also a second painter. And, for that matter, a third-and a fourth. Though Coward has carefully varied the age, sex, color and nationality of the four daubers, their appearances seem curiously alike...