Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What we should be concerned about is the depths to which military discipline has fallen. The fact of the matter is-Wheeler refused to obey a lawful order given him by a superior. If every soldier, sailor, marine or airman suddenly decided to disobey an order, the U.S. would be in a hell of a fix. The people of this country have a choice: A disciplined, effective military establishment or a rabble consisting of graduated juvenile delinquents, with Elvis Presley haircuts...
...around the White House early in the week. In the legislative wonderland, "authorization" is a far cry from actual appropriations, and White House liaison men reported that a House appropriations subcommittee was about to slash foreign aid even below the authorization total. Ike was disturbed. "This is no lighthearted matter," he told associates. "The very integrity, the very safety of the U.S. rests upon this undertaking...
Something Like Nehru. There is a world of difference between the two leaders. The Thai Premier runs a sometimes benign, sometimes malevolent dictatorship whose inner-circle corruption is legendary even in an area where corruption is taken as a matter of course. President Diem's own South Viet Nam regime has its share of corruption, and Diem has autocratic inclinations, but he is personally austere and moralistic. Pibulsonggram rarely if ever sets himself forth as a political philosopher...
...between performances, he made flying trips cross-country to play the leading comedy role in the Metropolitan Opera's Gilbert-and-Sullivanish souffle, La Périchole, which he also staged. "I sound like a sick walrus when I'm in good voice," he says. Within a matter of months he also bested Mike Wallace on Night Beat, played the bean peddler in TV's Jack and the Beanstalk, made some records with Bea Lillie, played all the parts in a recording of Alice in Wonderland, recorded Peter and the Wolf with the Philadelphia Orchestra, did several...
...Nothing counts but victories, no matter how achieved. I have searched long, diligently-and in vain-to find more than one individual who is outstanding both as an athlete and layman.* I have learned that to be a good sport in the concept of athletes and coaches one must 1) win at any cost. 2) cheat if necessary-but don't get caught, 3) feel that victory, not having fun. is important...