Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe that biology is the most diversified of the natural sciences, both in subject matter and in methodology," Wilson explained, "and therefore we should allow students to follow their special interests no matter where they fall in the over-all spectrum of biology...
Hugh O'Brian, who plays Wyatt Earp, only wears one Buntline Special and some kind of Colt sidearm. Please look into this matter...
Tass scornfully advised Soviet city dwellers, who often live three and four or more to a room, that nothing so luxurious could possibly be "typical" or, for that matter, be bought for a mere $13,000. Then Tass's editors showed what they really thought of the splitnik: "There is no more truth in showing this as the typical home of the American worker than, say, in showing the Taj Mahal as the typical home of a Bombay textile worker or Buckingham Palace as the typical home of the English miner." Furthermore, added Tass, with its mind on what...
...takes a while, however, for the student-leader to note that no matter how hard he may be working to represent his fellows, no one really considers him his representative. The feeling that no one appreciates what he is doing (and this applies as well to the club officer's regard of his rank-and-file) leads to a martyred bitterness toward those whom he is supposed to represent. The realization that his fellows are asking "Who cares?" eventually leads him to mutter, "The hell with them," and the chasm between the academic reality and the dream of the leader...
...take much investigation to see that such a student is rare; and that irresponsibility is widespread. It takes the form of the play director who walks out on the play in the middle, the fund drive chairman who forgets to send out checks to charities. What does it matter what I do? he bitterly asks; no one cares, anyway...