Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wanda, the daughter of his master. She is intelligent and well formed. But by both Jewish and Christian custom of the times, marriage of Jew and Gentile must be punished at least by ostracism, probably by death. Jacob is ransomed and eventually wanders to Lublin, but finds no comfort among the city's Jews, who seem to have forgotten the Cossack massacres. They have grown fat. "All this flesh was dressed in velvet, silk and sables. They were so heavy they wheezed; their eyes shone greedily. They spoke an only half comprehensible language of innuendoes, winks and whispered asides...
Businessmen take little comfort from the tax revision bill that the Administration is pushing Congress to pass this year. The chief purpose of the bill is to foster capital investment by granting business firms a special tax credit on purchases of new equipment. Far from being grateful, businessmen have complained that the provision is overly complex and inequitable in its benefits. The bill also contains two other provisions that have aroused a lot of bitter opposition: 1) withholding on dividends and interest, which would impose huge costs and a large burden of paper work on banks and business firms...
...Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts next fall. Proving that art is not above imitating lower forms of life, the Philharmonic's architects have adopted a favorite gimmick of baseball and race-track clubhouses, enabling ticket holders to watch the main event on television from the convivial comfort of the bar. Furthermore, scarcely a corridor or a dressing room in the 2,612-seat concert hall will be out of range of a television camera. From the subterranean garage, where VIPs will disembark from limousines, to the rooftops overlooking the plaza, the whole place will be bugged for sight...
...which music, poetry, art and literature could affect a man's life. He discussed at length "the Deep Well of human experience"--a phrase used in Lowe's The Road to Xanadu--and he hoped his listeners would be able to draw upon this well "for solace, and comfort, and strength, and inspiration...
...aged [June 1]. Not only are our hospital bills paid for, but our drugs, doctors' visits to our homes (a luxury in America). Our eyes and teeth are all taken care of-and last, but not least, our free choice of doctors is upheld. What a comfort to know that my savings are safe in the Bank of England-without the thought at the back of my mind that one day the lot will have to go on medical expenses...