Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high Alps from Salzburg to Lombardy? The terrain will then favor us on all sides, and we will make any attackers pay a hideous price. Think it over. We do not ask for much-only that we, ourselves, be permitted to live out our lives in dignity and comfort, as Napoleon did at St. Helena. You may do what you will with Germany. Think it over...
...last week's opinion, there was still some comfort for Alcoa and Judge Caffey. The court found no proof that: 1) Alcoa had monopolized bauxite deposits or waterpower sites; or 2) Alcoa and Aluminium, Ltd., had any corporate relationship, even though the Mellon family and Alfred Vining Davis owned a controlling interest in both...
...POWER HOUSE - Alex Comfort -Viking ($3). One brooding young mill worker blows up a train and another strangles his overbearing, nymphomaniac mistress in this doggedly realistic novel of French lower-middle-class life before and during the Nazi occupation. Power ful, depressing...
...bring back home. ... I challenge the Government here and now ... to appoint a Royal Commission ... to inquire into and report on the whole matter of reinforcements, desertions and discipline. . . . Let us not have the answer that this cannot be done for security reasons or that it will give comfort to the enemy. That is only another way of saying it will not give comfort to the Government...
...came. He was expecting them. He had his bags and a pianist's finger-exercising machine packed and waiting. Sadly he turned his beloved grey Gothic cathedral over to the German clergy to make into a Wehrmachtskirche. During the ten months of his imprisonment, he lived with comparative comfort in the American section of the Compiègne internment camp...