Word: comfortable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Navy and Army: Secretaries Edison (due to go soon) and Woodring (long overdue to go); Assistant Secretary of War Johnson (whose brash, abrasive voice crying in the wilderness for men & arms last year was too loud for his own, the Army's and the country's comfort); Chief of Naval Operations Harold R. Stark, Chief of Staff...
...Majesty's farflung Governments down under and up top. Mr. Churchill, who fought as a youth in the Boer War and has taken the world for his apple all his life, whipped out a cable to South African Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts: It Is A Comfort To Feel That We Shall Be Together In This Hard And Long Trek, For I Know That You And The Government And The Peoples Of The Union Of South Africa Will Not Weary Under The Heat Of The Day, And That We Shall Make A Strong Laager For All Beside The Water...
...closing chapter, The Empire Will Not Die, cool, hardheaded Albert Viton turns his back on the rest of his book, begins to comfort himself and the reader with such emotional catch-phrases as "this amazing little island"; to deliver such debatable statements as "Few countries can boast as high a type of manhood as that produced by the public schools of England"; to remark, "The septuagenarian Neville Chamberlain is symbolic of the virility of the English people"; and to snort "To say that war exhausts is as much nonsense as that exercise weakens." After his long persuasions that night must...
...charge that science has outrun itself and that it has brought more woe and pain and disorder than happiness, comfort, and order is almost exclusively made by vain people whose failure to understand the simplest techniques has produced an inferiority and a defense...
...Cold comfort next day, when it was learned that the Northwestern Expeditionary Force had pulled out of Namsos as well as Åndalsnes, were Chamberlain's assurances that "although in the face of overwhelming difficulties in the situation, it has not been possible to effect the capture of the town [Trondheim], I am satisfied that the balance of the advantage up to the present lies with the Allied forces...