Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...citizens assumed that the law was meant to protect the cigarettes produced by the state tobacco monopoly against competition from imported cigarettes (whose sales depend much more heavily on advertising), U.S. tobaccomen began to worry lest the U.S. Government take a cue from Britain and Italy. They found scant comfort in news that the U.S. Public Health Service has just decided to set up a panel to study the relationship between smoking and cancer...
...maladies of East Germany are usually economic, but last week they were personal as well. Raging in East Berlin was a dysentery epidemic that so far has affected 28,000 people. Those who staggered to public comfort stations found all the toilets were closed to stop the spread of the disease. Students and faculty from East Berlin medical classes were hastily recruited to help out at the hospitals...
...many, the most encouraging thing is the spirit of the description the prospective united church has devised for itself -"catholic, reformed and evangelical." The "catholic" should satisfy high-church Episcopalians, "evangelical" should please gospel-centered Methodists, and "reformed" will comfort Calvinist Presbyterians. Says San Francisco's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike, a top supporter of the ecumenical movement (though not a participant in the Washington talks): "The three words represent the best of all we have...
...Through a Glass Derkly, the hero, who has just watched his daughter succumb to inherited insanity, announces that God is love. Since the young woman has lost her grip on reality in the presence of three who love her deeply, and has been unable to draw either comfort or support from their love, the sentiment seems somewhat irrelevant, but it is an appropriate conclusion to a film laden with unconvincing philosophies and illogical sequences...
...Privileged and the People formed Two Nations," wrote Benjamin Disraeli in Sybil, a satirical novel of protest against the bitter poverty of Britain's .working class, contrasted with the comfort of the wealthy. The situation lasted through Dizzy's Victorian era and well into the 20th century. But in recent years, Tory-led prosperity, piled atop Labor's welfare state, has brought about an economic revolution beyond the Dizziest dreams of reform. A new formula for Britain's cost-of-living index, released last week by the Ministry of Labor, shows that modern Britain...