Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stark Fact. By that time the post-mortem was well under way. Because the vote in the Democratic Party was more than twice that on the Republican side, Stevenson sought comfort in his own interpretation that the big news from Minnesota was "a smashing repudiation of the present Administration...
...rigid social and political controls that Southern whites imposed on Negroes after Reconstruction. (Southern talk that segregation is part of the South's traditional way of life is nonsense; in much of the South, Jim Crow is only half a century old.) Gradualists, North and South, used to comfort themselves with the theory that, with increasing Southern prosperity, the poor whites whose votes enforced segregation would lose their fear of Negro economic competition, and the problem of human rights would then solve itself. Unhappily, this has turned out to be untrue. Southern Negroes today enjoy more rights than they...
Having given aid and comfort to allies, Dulles moved on to New Delhi and a more difficult session. Indian officialdom is notably unenchanted by Dulles. Unlike the welcome extended to Bulganin and Khrushchev, Dulles' airport welcome was quiet and formal. Dulles was driven to Nehru's home, where he found the Indian Prime Minister sitting reading a book on the porch. They began a friendly but frank conversation which, with a few breaks, lasted hours longer than had been scheduled. Nehru was not happy over SEATO's references to Kashmir; Dulles replied that...
Since last November and at least through next month, Cartoonist Gray is devoting the strip to a "thorough and penetrating analysis" of teen-age violence. Editors and parents find the story line about Annie's adventures among street hoodlums a little too authentic for comfort. Last week the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and Columbus' Ohio State Journal both suspended Annie until she finds better companions. Explained the morning Globe-Democrat on its front page: "Annie . . . features muggings, switchblade knives and language that we think does not fit into [this] type of newspaper." Half a dozen other dailies from...
DEEP South states are not going to get any comfort from either party. Both parties and their candidates, whosoever, are going to be aggressive and demanding in their stands on segregation. Presumably the two parties in this respect will cancel each other...