Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Weather Bureau blamed America's freeze on a "meandering strong wind current" flowing south from Canada, offered what comfort it could by announcing, "As cold as it is, it is not as severe as the great cold wave of 1899 . . ." The record cold so threatened the survival of southern Europe's migratory birds that the International Hunting Council asked European governments to ban all hunting until the spring thaw; in Italy and Germany, fish hatcheries reported widespread losses as ice cut off the oxygen supply of breeding fish...
...miles from the nearest hotel and the sand flies seemed insatiable. But today, with the increasing sophistication of the U.S. vacationist and the enterprise of the developers, the Caribbean offers something for everybody. In the bigger centers, new hotels provide the best in air-conditioned comfort and sophisticated food for those who want cocktail-lounge luxury, the dim-lit excitement of a gambling casino, and the best floor shows east of Las Vegas. For those who yearn for nothing more than roughing it in total isolation, there are still remote, palm-fringed beaches. Or the middle-minded may want...
...comic novelist). He is the author of The Manchurian Candidate, a comic eruption that simply as comedy ranks with the best funny novels done recently in the U.S.-that is, with Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Richard Bissell's 7½ Cents and Peter De Vries's Comfort Me with Apples. But Condon is something more. He is a comedian who throws his custard pies in black anger, with intent to maim. His novels resemble (more accurately, are resembled by) Heller's Catch-22; the difference being that Condon's work is wildly plotted and Heller...
...work by machines; and it should have begun collecting information from scattered employers intending to introduce payroll-reducing machinery so that regional and national "automation maps" could be drawn, and plans made in advance for areas or industries that will be especially hard-hit. It is little comfort to speak of what should have been done a decade ago; but it is irrational to expect men to bear the effects of this vast omission uncomplainingly. The cost of this failure in human terms cannot be reckoned; where rational readjustments were possible to meet the introduction of new machinery...
...Comfort & Facts. The preschool child is too young to be comforted by reason. Just as it does no good to insist "There are no ghosts," it is not enough to say, "Don't be foolish-this is a drill, not an air raid." What seems to help most at this age, says Dr. Escalona, is a bedtime story, an extra cookie, a night light, and the knowledge that mother is not far away...