Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hugh says: "He would never have accepted this thankless job without a broad agreement with the government, without a prospect of resolving the conflict." In New York, where he was busy lobbying for next month's U.N. Cyprus debate, Archbishop Makarios shrugged: "A solution is just a matter of time. Cyprus will be free." But Turkey's President Celal Bayar still growled that Turkey will never let an island 40 miles off its coast fall into Greek hands. Most hopeful solution: an independent Cyprus within the British Commonwealth, with defense facilities on the island to be British...
...session of the case. But the Moslem faithful had waited for justice long enough. They stormed from the court into the mosque grounds, drove out the Reds and tore down most of the Red decorations with their bare hands. Even Allah seemed to be taking a hand in the matter: the Red lawyer was killed by a train when his taxi stalled on a railroad crossing. At long last the Indonesian court ruled hastily that Pak Murah and his Communists must vacate the premises forthwith. The Reds promptly filed an appeal. Last week both factions were sitting tight awaiting...
...opened with Met Baritone Leonard Warren as guest. The Cedar Rapids Symphony (69 amateurs and 17 members of the musicians' union) had a full house with, said Conductor Henry Denecke, "no one out with the flu and the bases loaded," i.e., all five bass chairs occupied, no simple matter in Cedar Rapids...
...fall of Rome, continues the Wise Guy, "a sexually repressed monk named Augustine wrote a book called The City of God in which he assured the Romans that their adoption of Christianity was not the cause of the downfall of the Empire, and that anyway it did not matter what kind of society they lived in on earth, since their destiny was a City...
...paintings," bought the whole lot to get them. But instead of unloading, Niarchos keeps buying. Why? Says Niarchos, "I collect for the pleasure and esthetic satisfaction pictures give me. I like living with them. They make my surroundings and my life more pleasant. It is by no means a matter of investment; it is a question of pleasure, fun and feeling...