Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This total warfare of ours against the evils spawned by the burgeoning greeds and lusts of the Axis powers will be in vain, unless we can win the churches to a new crusade for the spirit exemplified by Jesus' Good Samaritan. World justice and human welfare, rather than comfort and wealth within one's own nation, must be the Christian goal...
...nation's shoe clerks had a fierce week. There were stampedes, late closings, long queues of customers (mostly women, exhibiting a wholly unfeminine unconcern with style as compared to comfort and wear). The shoe stampede illustrated the basic psychology of rationees: need or no need, use Coupon No. 17 before it's too late. But many had held off in order to get the most possible wear out of No. 17. They probably won't use No. 18 until just before it expires...
Ever since his birth in the Evening Standard cartoons of David Low, Colonel Blimp has been the gaseous, walrus-mustached symbol of British muddling. Blimp paid reluctant attention to earth-shaking events as he waddled to the insular comfort of his club to find good sherry and claret, a deep leather chair and reassuring words in the London Times. When he spoke it was in gouty grunts, and his favorite words were "Gad, Sir." Usually this expressed his disapproval of anything which might change the way things had always been done and, by Gad, Sir, always would be done. Britons...
...glimpse of the size of Pan Am's postwar baseball bat, revealed that for more than a year Pan Am has planned "50 giant clippers, each capable of carrying 153 passengers from New York to London in ten hours at a fare of $100." Britons could take some comfort in Skycoon Trippe's insistence that they be given planes for the crucial conversion period when most new transports will still be on the drawing boards...
...mouth organ, or harmonica, has been a great comfort to U.S. soldiers in past wars. But priorities in metal have already put a serious crimp in the U.S. harmonica business. This war's comfort is more likely to come from two easily portable and nonmetallic instruments : the "sweet potato," or ocarina, and the tonette...