Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cold for Comfort. Mustered out in 1945 as a captain with a Bronze Star, Bundy spent 18 months helping former Secretary of War Henry Stimson write his memoirs, On Active Service in Peace and War. The book's closing lines, addressed to younger generations, remain strikingly relevant: "Let them learn from our adventures what they...
...personally take great comfort from the protection of both marines and Army paratroopers in Santo Domingo, because without them I and all Americans who were there might be dead...
...life I have drawn strength and something more from those Texas hills. Sometimes, in the highest councils of the nation, in this house. I sit back and I can almost feel that rough, unyielding, sticky clay soil between my fingers, and it stirs memories that often give me comfort and sometimes give me a pretty firm purpose...
...thought that your readers would be interested in knowing of yet another use of the Morton Salt Co.'s [May 7] product: making fresh water into salt water for the joy and comfort of the porpoises at the Cape Coral Gardens here in Florida. Fifty thousand lbs. of table salt were initially poured into the porpoise pool. The porpoise couldn't tell the artificial water from the real thing...
Touring Europe last week, Columnist Joe Alsop complained that U.S. newspapers were giving aid and comfort to this kind of anti-Americanism abroad at a time when the "motives and aims of the Government's action must be given the benefit of the doubt." Said Alsop...