Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comfort U.S. televiewers to learn that European programming has its shortcomings too. The highest TV rating in the history of Eurovision went last week to Games Without Boundaries (called It's a Knockout in Britain), a sort of Hellzapoppin' Olympics that would make Truth or Consequences seem comparatively cerebral. Yet the six-nation finals pulled more than 70 million viewers in six countries...
Despite the air-conditioned comfort of the pine-paneled hearing room in Nassau's Supreme Court building, the rotund witness mopped repeatedly at his ample jowls and bald dome. His sweat was understandable. Sir Stafford Lofthouse Sands, 54, until eight months ago the most powerful political figure in the Bahama Islands, was trying to explain just why he had been paid $1,800,000 by the operators of two lavish and controversial casinos. The money, charged a royal investigating commission, had changed hands both before and after the casino owners were exempted from the Bahamas' law against gambling...
...recent years, summer music has moved steadily indoors for air-conditioned comfort. But this season more and more Americans are defying chiggers and heat for the trill, the toot and the oompah-pah of old-fashioned outdoor summer band concerts...
Nearly 200 such trailers, equipped with movie projectors, record players, school benches, and a cot and stove for the roving teacher's comfort, are roaming Mexico's rural areas...
Capital transfers out of the colony, mainly by some wealthy Chinese, are estimated at $66 million in May and June-a mere 4% of the total currency and bank deposits. Many businessmen find comfort in the fact that most firms could move out lock, stock and barrel with little trouble at all, if need be. It is a fact of Hong Kong business life that factory machinery has long been designed for easy loading aboard ships. Business has always been transacted in Hong Kong with an eye to quick returns and with relatively little capital tied down in buildings...