Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strong defense is always a comfort, but it is distressing that the United States has shown no moral solution to the day's crisis...
...somewhat distrustful air of the guards--no luggage inspection, few questions. In order to accommodate its foreign tourists, the government even furnishes certain national groups noted for their extraordinary capacity to find everything "just a little bit nicer at home in France" with the equipage necessary for their greatest comfort. French visitors, for example, will be pleased to find that Tito has embellished the bathroom at the Loibl Pass station not with France-Soir--of which there is a shortage--but with the next best thing: copies of an obsolete customs declaration form...
...discussing physical laws misapplied to social situations, Purcell found the Law of Averages most frequently misused. "We unconsciously apply it, if only to derive a little comfort from it. People think of it as a stabalizing force, something that evens things out in the end, when actually this is not so," he said...
...rejected intimacy, Sam Rayburn was a warmhearted humanitarian. The day after his close friend, former Vice President Alben Barkley, died, Rayburn let his emotions show. Stepping into the well of the House, he delivered a moving eulogy in a choked voice. "God bless his memory," he said. "God comfort his loved ones. God comfort...
...Above all, we must love Europe," he wrote, "this Europe to whom La Gioconda forever smiles, where Hamlet seeks in thought the mystery of his inaction, where Faust seeks in action comfort for the void of his thought, where Don Juan seeks in women met the woman never found, and Don Quixote, spear in hand, gallops to force reality to rise above itself. This Europe must be born. And she will, when Spaniards will say 'our Chartres,' Englishmen 'our Cracow,' Italians 'our Copenhagen'; when Germans say 'our Bruges,' and step back horror...