Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political parson, Dr. Hart is noted for confining himself to the personal, spiritual needs of his parish. World War II, Term III, Column V, find no place in his sermons. Says he: "There is so little time to bring the comfort and guidance of religion into the daily lives of my congregation . . . [it] cannot be done if one's theme is political...
...compared such catastrophes to the first leaves of a fig tree, by which men know that summer is near. In his closing chapter Winston Churchill begins to sketch a program for The Third Day. His resurrection is not supernatural but earthly. The reader who finds in this chapter cold comfort may perhaps be pardoned. But he who finds in it mere idiocy may perhaps be mistaken...
...this man. For years he was almost idolized by the American people. Now he shows his appreciation by doing all in his power to keep this country in its present condition of helplessness. Of late practically all his public utterances have been timed and delivered to give aid and comfort to potential enemies of this country. . . . Whether he realizes it or not, he is serving Nazi interests well in his endeavors to prevent preparedness and to lull an awakening America to sleep...
...staggering possibilities: that the seat of the British Empire might be moved to Ottawa if Britain should be overrun, that the British fleet might be forced to seek bases in Canadian ports, that Nazi Germany might claim Canada if she won-in which case unfortified bridges and boundaries would comfort neither U. S. citizens nor Canadians. Smooth Mr. Moffat raised no such grim prospects. Quizzed over the phone by a Toronto newspaper on how long he would stay ("Mr. Roper and Mr. Cromwell each spent about three months") he was reassuring: "I know ... I know . . . I'll stay longer...
...chemistry has given gas to the generals, it has given gas masks to soldiers and civilians. In other ways it has added much to a soldier's comfort. It keeps him dry with waterproof clothes, lightens his pack with aluminum utensils and condensed food rations. Napoleon's legionnaires, weighed down by bread and flour, carried packs that weighed 58 lb. The modern U. S. foot-slogger's pack weighs 31 lb. His emergency ration consists of nucleo-casein, malted milk, egg albumen, powdered cane sugar, cocoa butter-proteins, amino-bodies, fat and carbohydrates...