Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting that test, President Eisenhower has deeply committed himself, both personally and politically. He has broken off a longstanding friendship with Clint Anderson, until recently a frequent fourth at White House bridge games. The President has declared himself behind Lewis Strauss to the end, no matter how bitter...
...when he might have become more mellowed. It shows in the studied elegance of his tailoring, in a precision of speech that comes natural to him from long habit but seems a bit affected to unfriendly ears, and above all in a fierce reluctance to admit his mistakes, no matter how human and understandable they may have been. Some of his perfectionism traces back to a sense of being an outsider. As a Jew, he has sometimes felt the wounding edges of anti-Semitism (and again last week, that ugly term popped up). For all his wealth...
...production of Green Pastures, was acquitted of living off the earnings of a prostitute, but though the London magistrate dismissed the case before Marshall even finished testifying, he refused to award him ?300 in court costs on the ground that the police had the "duty to test the matter before the courts." "Again," bristled the Sketch, "the innocent one pays." What made the laws work in such dreadful manner? Last week, in a special report by British jurists calling for a complete inquiry into the nation's laws, worried Britons got an answer...
...least a half-dozen Radcliffe girls penned in reasons for objecting to mixed marriage on the more personal grounds of wanting to feel a "oneness" with their partners on this fundamental matter of religion: "Feel I must agree with mate on religion to be happy." "There are certain parts of Jewish life I want to have in my home--I think I'd enjoy life with a person who could share these moments and activities with me." "Sharing religion is basic to a marriage, I think...
...Because of our ignorance in this matter, I see no adequate grounds for either affirming or denying the existence...