Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army-Navy-Air Force Journal, an unofficial service publication, reported last week, however, that General Matthew B. Ridgway, Chief of Staff, was very disturbed over any reported cut in ground forces...
...completeness is your aim, choose an author who is easily embraced, that is, whose works you can collect, assemble, and see as a whole. Fielding, Jane Austen, the Brontes, Stendhal, Turgenev, Hardy, Conrad, Bagehot, Matthew Arnold-such writers are not too voluminous; each one has kept up a steady standard, and endowed his works as a whole with a corporate character. Voltaire, Goethe, George Sand, Wells, Bennett, and Belloc, on the other hand, are no use for this purpose . . . They all wrote some rubbish. And to the scholars can be left the mountainous minutiae of Walpoleiana, or the Boswell Papers...
...Judge Matthew Hill demurred. "What the residents of Chehalis would not be compelled to do one by one," he said in a dissenting opinion, "it is now sought to compel them to do en masse . . . This smacks more of the police state than of the police power...
...desk work, Simmons must fulfill an overwhelming number of engagements that to ordinary citizens would seem to be mostly social, but to Simmons are strictly line of duty. In one recent week he: lunched with the Nicaraguan ambassador; attended receptions at the Venezuelan embassy, the Latvian legation and General Matthew Ridgway's quarters; dined twice at the White House; flew to New York to represent the President at the departure of Britain's Queen Mother; returned to Washington in time to meet French Premier Mendes-France; escorted Mendes-France to the White House and the National Press Club...
...rather be the editor of the Register than Cardinal Archbishop of New York," says Monsignor Matthew John Wilfred Smith, 63, of Denver, Colo. Monsignor Smith is not settling for too little. As editor and boss of the Catholic Register, he is not only the No. 1 press lord of Catholicism, but he runs the biggest and most successful chain of religious newspapers in the world. His national edition and 35 diocesan editions-all of them brightly edited, eight-column weeklies-have a combined circulation...