Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contradict the statement that I "flunked" my Cambridge entrance in Latin the first time and "barely squeaked" in on the second [Dec. 22]. The truth is that I managed it the first time, as anyone with the merest suggestion of intelligence could. At the level required, the subject matter is necessarily restricted to archaic absurdities that can no longer inspire the young mind, if they ever could: "The sailors sacrifice the bull on the altar of the immortal gods!" This is the sort of bull we have got to be prepared to sacrifice...
WILL 1959 BE MOUNTBATTEN'S YEAR? cried a headline in Lord Beaverbrook's London Sunday Express. Next morning Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, first Earl Mountbatten of Burma, walked into his office as First Sea Lord, waving the Sunday Express, beamed matter-of-factly: "The Beaver's attacking me again-I must be due for a promotion." Within 48 hours came the announcement: next July, when R.A.F. Marshal Sir William Dickson retires, Lord Mountbatten will become Chief of the Defense Staff, top military man over all Britain's services...
...Gaulle: "A very good fellow. I reviewed his book and I said then, General de Gaulle is a very good soldier and a very bad politician. He wrote back to me saying, 'I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians...
...watchers instead of doers"). He has been married for 33 years, lives a Spartan life in which he drinks little (a few Scotches now and then), eats little (no desserts, frequent salads and sandwiches), sleeps little (average: six hours), generally avoids social contacts with company people-and, for that matter, with just about everyone but his own family (four married daughters, ten grandchildren...
...pool shark, although he hated to be called that; he thought of himself as a pool hustler, a town-to-town drifter who conned strangers into games, looked bad or only fair at first, then turned on his skill when the stakes were high enough to matter. Eddie had the skill and pride of a real...