Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...civilization, says Toynbee, is in its time of troubles (he dates them from the wars of the Reformation), perhaps toward the end of them. He finds bleak comfort in the thought that as yet no universal state has been imposed despite Napoleon's attempt, and two attempts by the Germans. But from the vast design and complex achievement of A Study of History one hopeful meaning stands out: not materialist but psychic factors are the decisive forces of history. The action takes place within the amphitheater of the world and the flux of time; the real drama unfolds within...
Until now, the leaders of groups threatened by Communist infiltration have at least had the comfort of knowing who was and who was not a CP member, and could with some acuity predicate their course of action on this knowledge. The proposal to outlaw the Communist Party would only make it increasingly difficult--or impossible--to deal with this most difficult facet of the problem...
...more fundamentally, Europe is losing its last chance at middle-of-the-road economic remedies if English mines continue to send spasms of paralysis through British industry. Democratic moderates in France and the Low Countries has looked to a flow of consumers goods from these factories to clothe and comfort their shabbily-dressed millions while at the same time the export of processed foods to England was to be balanced by this trade. To Germans the British dimout meant that the industrial rehabilitation of their country must await stimulus from the east, since Newcastle can scarcely afford coals...
Clothes for Callers. Her real start came when a pregnant customer asked Lane Bryant to make her something "comfortable and yet presentable." Mrs. Bryant made a tea gown in which the bodice was attached by an elastic band to an accordion-plaited skirt. This permitted comfort and style with expansion; with it Lane Bryant's business expanded...
...journalist of the closed mind . . . knows in advance which side he is on, and engages the correspondent or accepts the article that will give aid and comfort to that side. Forsaking the obligation to illuminate, he turns on the heat. The result is inevitable: the other side fights back. The blood pressure of the community rises. And what we tend to have in our journalism is not a town meeting in which unexpected opinions and fresh solutions and ingenious compromises have a hearing, but a pitched battle of propagandas. . . . A certain amount of this sort of partisan journalism...