Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world,' he says. 'That's what happened to Stevenson.' " And then the article goes on talking about Humphrey being a New Dealer as if my mental growth had stopped about 1936. That is sufficiently insulting, but I can take that since it is a matter of opinion. However, the quotation is a matter of outright distortion and I do object...
...their 25 paces that their shoelaces had been tied together. This summer has been especially galling: tourists have poked, tickled, thrown banana peels or ice-cream cups underfoot, sung out derisive marching orders, brazenly grabbed at the guards and screamed: "Look, he's real!" But no matter what the tourists did-"They seem to think we're exhibits in a zoo"-the guards had no defense except an official but effective maneuver in which they abruptly cut short their beat and went into a high-stepping about turn...
...Matter of Definition. Soustelle wants to do more than wipe out France's dollar deficit. He hopes to make France a major oil supplier to the entire 168 million people in Western Europe's new Common Market nations, feeding oil by tanker into the southern end of a projected 36-inch pipeline from Marseille to Karlsruhe. Sahara's natural gas might be transported to Europe either by tankers specially built to carry it in liquid form or by a trans-Mediterranean pipeline through Spain. And Algeria itself will benefit from a feeder line to carry gas from...
...boxing buffs see Liston as the U.S.'s most promising challenger for Sweden's Johansson, even though Liston has so far fought only second-raters. With future title fights snarled by legal difficulties. Liston has no assurance when-if ever-he will meet Johansson, or, for that matter, Floyd Patterson. But Liston is properly confident. "I don't think Johansson can punch," says he. "I know Patterson would never get up the second time if I caught...
...people, I suspect, would maintain that their ability to write English correctly and effectively could not be improved. No matter what one's channels of endeavor. one should try to write his own language as well as possible. Punctuation is probably the aspect to which the least attention is paid these days: yet it is an essential, and no mere refinement...