Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quid Gloves. In London, Scotland Yard discreetly looked into the matter of a counterfeit ?1 note that turned up in the bar of the House of Commons...
...take a teaching job in Cambodia under the U.S.'s International Educational Exchange program. He still wanted to teach, he told Washington, but could something be done about the air currents? He hung up reassured; there was passage available on a ship, and it did not much matter that the ship was headed not for Cambodia but Morocco...
...Siles promised the U.S. to cut the subsidy gradually over a period of four months. To the union leaders, he promised a 35% pay raise. Result: everyone went back to work, and the International Cooperation Administration mailed off a check. How long Siles can continue his act is another matter. Both the U.S. lenders and Bolivian takers remember that Siles has promised twice before to end the mine subsidy, and reneged each time...
...their romantic armchair admirers with some unpleasant surprises. Billy the Kid, of sentimental memory, was a psychopathic killer who dropped most of his 21 victims from ambush or tampered with their guns before he picked a fight; and he was not even fast on the draw. Jesse James, no matter what the legend says, never gave a buffalo nickel to the poor. Wes Hardin, the tiny Texan who was probably the most dangerous gunman in the West, was as mean as a mountain boomer; he had killed twelve men before he started to shave, and by the time...
...britches, and one of them, while poking his hat brim with a pistol, accidentally shot his own sideburns off. They became the prima donnas of horse opera, and sometimes it seemed as if they would rather pull hair than triggers. "Oh, Hugh O'Brian doesn't matter," Dale Robertson sniffed recently. "He's just a itty-bitty fella." And Hugh O'Brian is disgusted with Audie Murphy. When Hugh offered to bet $500 that he could beat anybody in Hollywood to the draw, War Hero Murphy upped the ante to $2,500 and demanded live ammunition...