Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Matthew 6:27: "And which of you by worrying can add one more hour to his life-time...
Communists, hoping to repeat in London the bloody Ridgway riots that greeted NATO Supreme Commander General Matthew B. Ridgway in Paris, failed to take the British character of their countrymen into account. When the Communists tried to spread leaflets, seven were arrested on charges of disorderly behavior and dropping "litter . . . otherwise than in a proper receptacle." Other comrades sneaked up to the U.S. embassy in tree-lined Grosvenor Square and daubed "Yank, Go Home" messages across the windshields of a line of U.S. cars...
...left flared up afresh over a special 60-page issue of the Nation called How Free Is Free? The issue reported on civil liberties in the U.S., found them desperately menaced from all sides. Harvard Law Professor Zechariah Chafee Jr. found the U.S. turning "spies into heroes"; Matthew (The Robber Barons) Josephson discovered "book-burning" in schools and libraries. Scientists, charged Harvard pinko Professor (of geology) Kirtley F. Mather, have been hard hit because they "are peculiarly vulnerable to suspicion, recrimination and punishment." In education, entertainment, publishing, advertising and other fields, Nation contributors all turned in similar gloomy reports...
...acquainted tour of the NATO countries, General Matthew Ridgway spoke at Elsinore, Denmark, where he won Danish hearts by his closing phrase: Held og lykke ("Good luck to you all"), delivered in faultless Danish. In Oslo, after a meeting with King Haakon, who will be 80 years old in August, 57-year-old Soldier Ridgway reported: "I could spend hours with him. But he was very thin, and I think he should eat more...
...Dayton newspaper and thought it looked vaguely familiar. He went to the museum, took a good look, and calmly announced his verdict: the portrait was not a painting at all, but an ingenious oil tracing over a print of the famed "Cooper Union" photograph of Lincoln taken by Matthew Brady in 1860. Chemicals were applied, a bit of the oil wiped off, and sure enough, hidden under the paint was a print of Brady's old photo. Red-faced museum officials thought it just possible that there might be a real Nickum original somewhere, sputtered that their retouched Brady...