Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wearer must "learn to tolerate this intruder just as one must learn to wear false teeth." This may mean a week or two of varying discomfort, for some patients a month or more. Rare indeed are the happy individuals who can pop lenses into their eyes, feel comfortable right away, and keep the lenses in all day.* At least five or six office visits are needed for proper fitting, says the association, and as many as 20 visits may be required. Finally, the association admits frankly, "In some cases, satisfaction and comfort just never come." This...
...refrain that Eisenhower's refusal to expand public spending has retarded the growth rate, when, say the critics, it should be expanding to keep pace with the Soviet Union. Pundit Walter Lippmann took off from the President's message most vehemently, accused the President of putting "private comfort and private consumption ahead of national need . . . The challenge of the Soviet Union," he wrote, "has been demanding an increase, not a reduction of the share of the national income devoted to public purposes. We are falling behind in the race because we are not allowed...
...microbes introduced from earth might quickly destroy any primitive exo-creatures. Conversely, the first space traveler who returns from Mars or Venus may bring with him fast-multiplying forms of extraterrestrial life. "The introduction of foreign organisms," said Lederberg, "might have disastrous consequences to our health, agriculture, economy or comfort." He urged that all humans landed on foreign planets be quarantined there until they are sure that no exo-pestilence will ride with them back to the earth...
...plastic boats ranged from Sock Boat Corp.'s do-it-yourself runabout ($395), which can be assembled by a novice in 20 hours to the 8-ft. ($325) Dhow midget rowboat. In general, outboards had less chrome, fewer fins, increased storage for gas, paid more attention to passenger comfort...
...hardworking, responsible people who want nothing more out of life than a little personal happiness. The husband, on the other hand, is a foulmouthed, beer-bellied, wife-belting brute. The heroine's honor is smirched "just once," and this not so much for her own pleasure as to comfort the man she loves, who has been shattered by the death of his young son. What's more, the poor hero has been hounded all his life by a monster of a mother (Mildred Dunnock) who intends to keep her son if she has to kill...