Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cairo last week, Panama's Ambassador to Italy, doubling as Minister to Egypt, declared that Gamal Abdel Nasser had the right to nationalize the Suez Canal Company, and that Panama would never accept international control of its canal-comments that afforded Nasser & Co. some small aid and comfort...
Eydie (pronounced Ee-dee) Gormé, 25, had a solid record hit in Too Close for Comfort (ABC-Paramount), and another is coming up strong in one of those too-innocent-for-comfort ditties called Mama, Teach Me to Dance. She has also accumulated three years of experience on Steve Allen's Tonight. As she sings, her rather long face looks vaguely troubled, and a slight, pathetic wave ruffles her smooth voice. In sweet songs, she sounds reedy and controlled. When she lets go, she squeezes her eyes in a kind of happy passion, and bounces discreetly, until...
...business as a boy, delivering Postal telegrams at 1? a message in New York City. When the U.S. entered World War I he was a radio ham, tapping out Morse code on his do-it-yourself set. The National Guard quickly shipped him off to Old Point Comfort, Va. to help start a military radio school. Later, he threaded his way upward through the postwar mergers of telegraph and telephone companies. By 1951, just before he joined TIME, he was an operations and personnel executive for Western Union...
...Death isn't a stranger to me, a Baptist minister for 46 years," he wrote. "I have prayed with scores of people in their last hours. I have turned from the deathbed to comfort hundreds of others . . . Death isn't a pleasant assignment . . . The question was hurled at me: Will my life in these few weeks bean example of what I have preached? Does death look different, now that it has come so near to me, than it looked when I was counseling with others? ... Is the counsel I gave to others adequate for myself now that...
...hucksters were making the most of their quadrennial opportunity to woo more than 11,000 delegates, alternates, journalists, wives and hangers-on at the convention. Outside the big hotels, 225 white (for purity) Fords, Lincolns and Mercurys stood by to whisk Democrats in air-conditioned and cost-free comfort to the International Amphitheatre. At the convention hall itself, the party that has not infrequently blasted Big Business let out space for the "American Showcase" promotion display of big business. The 22 advertisers hoped their free-handout booths might be picked up by roving TV cameramen and flashed to 50 million...