Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...City Council's ordinance committee yesterday recommended the adoption of an anti-pinball machine policy, but the Council itself again held up action on the matter pending a hearing...
Peking had obviously concluded that the way to handle Nehru was to menace him. Though an articulate denouncer of distant injustices, Nehru now told the press outside the Dalai Lama's house that he did not want "this matter to become a subject of heated exchanges and heated debates. I want to avoid the situation's getting worse." To newsmen eager to talk to the God-King, Nehru replied that he was sure the Dalai Lama was "more interested in a peaceful solution of the Tibetan problem than in press interviews...
...Delighted. Even if Sooi had not brought the matter up-and thus unleashed the chain of events that was to make the 35 disputed acres such a headache to both Brussels and The Hague-things would have been confusing enough. Of all Europe's confusing enclaves, none is quite so complex. The border between the two countries runs so crazily that in one place a man can switch countries just by walking from his bedroom into his living room. The frontier slices one café's billiard table in two, and there was a time when players...
...Dead Men." Last month in the New Statesman, onetime Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge fired even more wildly. Said Muggeridge, under the title "Dead Men Leading": "Probably no powerful country in history has had quite so dead a government as the U.S. has today. It is not just a matter of the infirmities of its two principal figures-President Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles. Apart from the decrepitude of the one and the fatal illness of the other, the government itself is scarcely operative...
Channel III, a Geiger tube, records higher rates of radiation, is designed to take over when Channel I is swamped. Here its square-topped waves are indicating about 4,000 counts per second, enough to kill a man exposed to them in a matter of days...