Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congolese without outside help, which presumably will have to come from or through the U.N. Contemplating the travail of the Congo, which has a large Roman Catholic population, Pope John XXIII said last week: "Just as it was about to harvest, from political independence, the long-awaited fruits of comfort and peaceful effort, behold this blessed land is bathed in blood . . . We turn beseechingly to those who can and must intervene with disinterested advice, with light of right, to help in re-establishing peace in this country...
...apprentices, Asgar ("Boots") Hansen and Edward ("Coots'") Matthews, have tamed 50 wells in Bahrein, Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Venezuela, Canada and the U.S. With an affluence known to no other firemen, Adair and his boys race to U.S. oilfield fires in flame-red Lincoln Continentals, fly in jet comfort to more distant alarms, and often collect as much as $20,000 plus expenses for a single job. For all his flamboyance-he indulges his fondness for red in his coveralls, safety helmets, office rug and secretary's hair-Adair is methodical about his business, carefully notes and catalogues everything...
...GREAT. "In my serious medical opinion, television is a particularly beneficial type of eye exercise, and I urge my patients to watch it as much as possible. Many people prefer to be close to the instrument for comfort, and that is where those people should sit. Some prefer to sit across the room and that is where they should sit. To insist that a child move away from the screen because that is where an adult prefers to sit may be enough to give him a headache and bring on nausea and vomiting...
...plot-the usual prefab fable about life in a California housing project-it is certain to make audiences respond with a ho-ho-ho-hum. Hope, a bestselling spicy storyteller, undertakes to investigate the sexual habits of the suburban female. Turner, a typical suburban female, gives aid and comfort. At the fade, Hope has his book, Turner has her man, and the customer has a question: Is this tripe necessary...
News gets worse and worse these days, and at a time when it takes an act of faith to drop off to sleep each night, even tiny grins of comfort are very welcome. It was therefore good to see that Muscovites are lining up to purchase their copies of Izvestia's interview with President Kennedy. Not because Russian citizens will immediately and clearly (in some Goldwatery, Cartesian manner) perceive the truth of the American cause, but because such interchanges are much preferable to the kind of scary Cold War bluster that has characterized the present world crisis...