Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...highway for the Imam. No longer is Russia the sole voice or representation of Communism to the outside world. China's Mao Tse-tung is intent on showing the undecided, the needy and the restless that Russia is not the only Communist power that can offer aid and comfort...
Yellow Stars. Hong Kong is far and away the most efficient tourist center and the most knowledgeable in combining the exotic, flavorful atmosphere of the East with the well-policed comfort and orderliness of the West. The city itself, officially called Victoria, is on Hong Kong Island. But the crown colony includes some 248 other islands, mostly small, barren and uninhabited, plus Kowloon Peninsula and the New Territories on the Chinese main land-altogether some 398 square miles jammed with 3,000,000 people, 99% of whom are Chinese. Hong Kong booms with banks and stockbrokers, merchants and money lenders...
Delaware. Though he lost his first election at 21, middle-of-the-road Republican Caleb Boggs, 51, has never lost one since and as Delaware's Governor managed to coexist in cozy comfort with an overwhelmingly Democratic legislature. A campaign manager's dream-he comes from a family of small farmers, won five battle stars and the Croix de Guerre in World War II combat-affable Lawyer Boggs is said to know more Delawareans by first name than any other man in the state...
...small comfort to San Luis Obispo that the FAA belatedly grounded all Arctic-Pacific planes. Through the week, while its flags hung at half mast, the town was as glum as the cool, grey fog that rolled in from the Pacific. Cal Poly remembered Halfback Vic Hall, an alternate 400-meter sprinter on the 1960 Olympic team. Vic wore contact lenses and had not wanted to play football, but the weak team needed him for his exceptional speed, so he had agreed to play. There was Curtis Hill, an end from Bakersfield, a smiling, studious, religious boy who had walked...
...Touch Meyer anywhere and you find him voting in a way that must give constant comfort to our enemies, the Russia's Communists...