Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unduly alarmed. . . . You are dealing with intelligent and enlightened people and you needn't fear an unjustifiable act on our part-on the contrary-our little captive (guest, rather) will be most charmingly treated while in our care and shall enjoy every consideration for physical and mental comfort. . . . We are certain this little interlude will not leave any unpleasant memories or impressions for the future. . . . We trust you will remain cool and collected and yet at the same time realize the seriousness of the situation-do not be confused by our politeness. . . . We mean business. . . . Wait until you have...
...long now-everything will be all right." Piped a 13-year-old girl: "Don't worry, nurse. The British Navy won't let us down." A London publisher held a dead baby in his lap, pretended to feed it from its bottle to comfort the dying mother. Another Londoner tried to help by caring for the dead. "I said as much of the burial service as I could remember," he said, "before dropping them overboard...I burried 24 persons, men, women and children, during the 24 hours...
...John Price Jones, high-powered professional fund raiser, the drive last week fell far short of its goal. Total raised: $5,035,000. Borne out were recent warnings by President Robert Maynard Hutchins of University of Chicago that U. S. universities faced a decline in gifts. Taking what comfort it could from the fact that 18,000 donors had contributed to its fund, Pennsylvania inscribed their names on an honor roll, placed it, together with other mementos, in a stainless steel box to be opened at the university's 300th anniversary...
...this was one more headache to the hamstrung Government of Vichy. But there was a modicum of cold comfort in the fact that it had also become a headache for the Germans. Harried little Vice Premier Pierre Laval, summoned to Paris by German Ambassador Otto Abetz, returned to Vichy last fortnight and ordered General Maxime Weygand to Morocco to see what could be done. But last week General Weygand was still in Vichy, although no longer a member of the Pétain Cabinet...
...made no direction as to charities. . . . I am aware of the charitable disposition of my wife and she can be trusted to do her share. . . . As to the disposition of my body: I have decided definitely that it is infinitely better for the common weal and particularly for the comfort of my nearest relatives that it should be cremated...