Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some of the eager buyers were incited to purchase through prurience, they were doomed to disappointment. The report itself is as devoid of racy reading matter as an economic yearbook. What made the headlines was the report's two major recommendations: that 1) homosexual behavior in private between consenting adults be no longer classed as a crime, and 2) arresting officers or complainants be no longer required to establish the fact of "annoyance" to bring prostitutes to book for soliciting...
...good evidence. Sampled: students at the two universities and teachers in the Wisconsin public schools, who were asked whether they agree or disagree with 14 statements based on the Bill of Rights. Whether the students went to a public or private school made no difference. Nor did it, matter whether they considered themselves Republicans or Democrats, liberals or conservatives...
...leaned over the visitors' dugout, took careful aim and treated Yankee Manager Casey Stengel to a faceful of beer. The response was expansive. "He wasn't cheap," said Casey of the attacker. "He hit me with a full cup." The feelings on both sides of the matter were plain. The White Sox were in the process of piddling away what might well be their last chance at the pennant...
After the story leaked out, reporters besieged the high-flying professor, and the Brazilian air force nervously put a fighter cover over the rendezvous beach. With a sigh, Guimaraes last week took to television to get the matter straight once and for all. But he refused to elaborate on his telepathic talk with the saucermen. "It is wiser not to divulge it. The authorities know all the details." Guimaraes' TV lecture left many viewers convinced that he had been in his cups rather than in a saucer. But as the hoots grew louder, friends and colleagues joined ranks around...
...country there are really several worlds," says Author André Dhôtel at the outset of this wistful, wonderfully comic tale. His young hero, Gaspard Fontarelle, is born to a resolutely matter-of-fact world, the sleepy, stodgy French resort village of Lominval. But all about Lominval, as the young boy grows up, is the dark, beckoning world of the Ardennes forest. And Gaspard himself is marked from birth as another-worldling. At his christening, thunder rumbles in the distance, and a panicked cat scratches the notary's wife. Calamities hound the sweet, shy child-a deer hunter...