Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble deepened he got little aid or comfort from his seconds. After he left Sun Valley, Idaho, he stopped at the desert hamlet of Carey (pop. 600), was handed a wreath, asked to dedicate the airport. None of the traveling White House secretariat bothered to check on the name of the citizen for whom the field was being named. Gravely, the President began: "I'm honored to dedicate this airport, and present this wreath to the parents of the brave boy who died fighting for his country...
...alert nation, militarily and industrially prepared against a national emergency, has an excellent chance of avoiding such an emergency." With these words of dubious comfort, the Munitions Board last week issued a booklet entitled Military Procurement, a comprehensive pocket guide to war planning by U.S. industry...
...main imponderable affecting Harvard chances for the fall. Boston is now with the Army; Hank Margarita and Henry Jacunski are both with Yale; and persistent reports say that Dick Harlow will advise Lou Little at Morning side Heights. Their knowledge of Crimson personnel will naturally be of aid and comfort to teams facing a new, unscouted Crimson system...
...Church," he said, "was reduced to an institution whose function it was to comfort the aged and to wipe the eyes of those who couldn't take it in the struggle of life. Now all our compromises, our sins, our apostasy are coming back to roost in one awful tide of judgment. And we are afraid of the Communists, afraid of the atomic bomb, afraid of a depression, afraid of Catholics, afraid of anything and everything fearful, afraid of God." Dr. Rutenber's remedy: to "return to God and the raw Christianity of our origins...
...Corporal works of mercy: to feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, harbor the harborless, visit the sick, ransom the captive, and bury the dead. Spiritual works of mercy: to instruct the ignorant, counsel the doubtful, admonish sinners, bear wrongs patiently, forgive offenses willingly, comfort the afilicted, and pray for the living and the dead...