Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...censorious Lord Chamberlain, the Earl of Scarbrough. Though one member of the show's unholy quartet sourly reflected that "if we had wounded the Establishment as much as we intended, the Queen's advisers would not have let her come," a more mellow colleague took comfort in the fact that not a line had been cut from the hard-hitting script in deference to the Queen's presence. Said he: "We thought the best thing to do was to ignore her-in the politest possible way, of course...
breast It brings no comfort...
...were not for Sandy's poems and the excellent trio of reviews at the end, this number of Mosaic could hardly justify its existence. Still, past issues of this magazine have all met a higher standard, and the new editorial board, which will plan the spring edition, can comfort itself with its vast opportunities for improvement...
...function of a university administration is to create an atmosphere in which mistakes may be profitably made, in which doubtful opinions may be expressed, in which bad judgments are also a way of learning. Destruction of such expression is the act of a bureaucracy more concerned with its own comfort than with the education of its students...
...final tests on home appliances that Matsushita is about to market. Currently, they live in a company-owned, 27-room Japanese-style home on a country estate between Osaka and Kobe, but will soon move to a six-room house on the same grounds, which is being westernized for comfort...