Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second Army is Turkey's, 200,000 strong, at present preoccupied with repairing the devastation of last month's monster earthquake. President General Inönü visited the stricken region not only to comfort his panicked peasantry (see cut, p. 31),but for military reasons. The thorough wreckage of northeastern Asia Minor has destroyed the railroads, without which Turkey's eastern defenses can hardly be supplied. Whether or not he expects to be at war by spring, last week President Inönü got from his adjourning Parliament emergency decree powers like those Premier Daladier...
...descriptive term such as Man of the Year which you use, should imply an outstanding and noble character. Whatever you may say about Ivan the Terrible inside the covers does not alter the fact that many other humans who look up to Stalin will get great aid and comfort from your giving him the cover on millions of copies of TIME, displayed prominently all over our country and other countries. As "clear, curt, concise" and cold as TIME is in giving the news, which I have read for many years from cover to cover, I cannot help but feel that...
Victorious George F. would be the last to maintain that employers generally could take much comfort from his triumph. "Labor conditions have improved," said he not long ago. "But they have not improved because of the willingness of capital. ... I have always believed in [unions] where needed, and they have been needed almost everywhere." Quoting these words, New York Post Columnist Samuel Grafton added on his own: "Those who are op posed to unions must at once accept the leadership of Mr. George F. Johnson, for his way has worked. But the trouble is, they have to take...
...what comfort is there for the undergraduates, who are the immediate sufferers? Not for years at least will they have the benefit of a detached analysis of the forces that are wracking them. And when it does come, there probably won't be any need for it. Meantime they will suffer in silence, and keep on huddling in cold little groups in the lee of Memorial Hall: "Jeest, I thought at least there'd be some choice. Now what did you say on that third question...
...yelling at the top of my voice that everything was going to be all right. I noticed that when anyone did anything, whether it was lowering a boat or just speaking, they did it with all their force. The one unendurable thing was to do nothing. I derived great comfort from expending energy on this poor woman...