Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Taft, Montana's Burt Wheeler, Illinois' "Curly" Brooks and Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry almost succeeded in delaying Senate action until mid-November. They were joined, surprisingly, by Minnesota's Republican Joseph Hurst Ball. The vote against delaying (52 to 31) was too close for Administration comfort. It found B2H2 (Ball, Burton, Hatch, Hill) split for the first time on an international issue, with Ohio's Harold Burton in Senator Ball's corner...
...Winston Churchills, dressed strictly for comfort, encountered photographers on the Hendaye beach, where they were vacationing between the British political campaign and the Potsdam Conference, together made a picture that looked startlingly like an old George Belcher cartoon out for a walk with one of the Elgin Marbles...
...plebes, bright answers and all, is designed to reduce all newcomers to a common denominator of brotherhood and then raise them up with a healthy respect for their superiors. Citizens who share the ancient U.S. fear of a large standing army, with its threat of military dictatorship, may take comfort in the knowledge that nowhere is the civilian authority of Congress so studiously-even breathlessly-respected as at West Point...
Both held themselves aloof from the throng, waiting impatiently for a reply. When the answer came back negative, the Princess stormed in a torrent of German and stilted English, then wept while her harassed, haggard husband tried to comfort her. Other refugees looked on incuriously, each wrapped in his own cares. When her weeping slackened, she turned to the G.I. guarding the bridge with an ingratiating smile: "But you don't understand, they are going to kill...
hospital ships to sail within 15 miles of their base at Truk) was suddenly thrown overboard. Out of a clear moonlit night a Kamikaze plane dove into the U.S.S. Comfort, steaming southeast of Okinawa with its lights ablaze, in accordance with international law. The crippled 700-bed mercy ship, with 29 dead, limped toward port...