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Word: comfort (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poised and cool in black, flanked by her mother and two lawyers. From another emerged her father-in-law. Oliver Powers, a 55-year-old cobbler whose last trip out of his hill country had been a visit to Atlanta and Washington in 1935. Hopelessly, Powers tried to comfort his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Boy from Virginia | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

...with or without U.N. help, the odds against a unified Congo are enormous. In bustling Leopoldville, where 15-story office buildings rise only a few miles from huts on stilts, it was the dry season and customers on the terrace of the Hotel Regina sipped their beer in relative comfort, grateful for a temperature dip that had taken the thermometer down to the 80s. Upriver at Coquilhatville, astraddle the equator, it was sweltering as usual, and the natives crept out of their huts to sleep in the tall moist grass. To the east, where the rain forest changes to flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE MANY LANDS OF CONGO | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

...threshold of the '20s and the new era of uncorseted freedom for women. The simple clothes Coco wanted to make were exactly what women were waiting for. She introduced the tricot sailor frock, the turtleneck sweater and the pullover, shortened skirts and heels for comfort, flattened chests to create a lithe, boyish look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Priestess of High Fashion: GABRIELLE CHANEL | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

Tomorrow at 4:15 p.m., John Bahcall and W.W. Comfort will face Stephen Lewinstein and Kent Watkins in men's doubles. The final matches of the mixed doubles and men's singles will be held at 4 p.m. Friday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Tourney Concludes | 8/17/1960 | See Source »

...village where I would take care of my Okinawan children. Then I want to put a library into this building so that everybody may be able to read whenever they want. I would like to open the door to the poor children and anyone else who wishes the comfort or joy to be always found within. If it is possible, I would like to teach a right and beautiful English in an Okinawan high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Collegian & the Sailors | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

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