Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fabled hills stand in sun-filled haze. There would be plenty of liquor, and San Francisco, a city with Irish street names, expected the great men to have a drink when they felt like it. There would be good food from the city's famed restaurants, and every comfort that hotels, clubs and citizens' committees could provide...
...voice sounded youthful; it also sounded as though its owner could smile. His voice was shallow, occasionally flat, and pitched a little too high for comfort (he lowered the pitch for his second broadcast). The President tended to chant his carefully enunciated phrases by syllables-one, two, three, four; one, two, three, four. His pronunciations had Missouri and Midwest antecedents: "entire"' was "ENtire...
...abundant food supply is equally essential in the fullest sense of that much abused word, to the winning of the peace. The choice is clear and inescapable, and future generations will judge us on our decision. Have we the intestinal fortitude to forego a little-how pitifully little !-present comfort for immense future gain? I think, I hope, that most Americans, when they realize fully the situation, will do the wise, the generous, the intelligent thing. Newspapers, periodicals, the radio have a grave public responsibility in educating the public conscience and intelligence in this matter...
...Nick Comfort, Dean of Oklahoma School of Religion: "Many [religious leaders] are waiting for Jesus to come and put an end to the whole damned mess. When that happens they expect to be on the job to sing the doxology...
Tired Chungking shook off winter's grey chill, admired the flowering plum and magnolia trees, found comfort in the promise of spring. In her eighth springtime of war, China was bearing an accumulated burden of inflation, hunger, disease, political disunity and military retreat. But somehow the nation was still holding together, and the Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had come back-a little way-from last fall's near-collapse...