Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Americans at Bat. Eden's pointed reference to China as a full partner did not quiet the fears aroused in the Far East. For India, there was as usual little comfort in anything that Winston Churchill said. Along with the rest of the world, the peoples in Britain's colonies had every right to read Mr. Churchill's global declaration in context with his earlier statement, for home consumption, that Britain intends to keep and rule her own colonies in her own way, after the war (TIME, March 29). The tone of the Prime Minister...
Faced with the problem of reporting the true state of the battle while withholding facts which might comfort the enemy, few generals find it easy to state the bitter, unqualified truth in communiqué or other public utterance. One of the frankest admissions of modern times was Lieut. General ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell's after retreating from Burma: "I claim we got a hell of a beating." Classic example of the frank general is the Greek Pyrrhus. Upon receiving congratulations on his costly victory over the Romans at Asculum (279 B.C.), he replied: "Another such victory and we are undone...
...Exhort and comfort! Comfort and exhort! . . . Up rises our old friend, Mr. A. V. Alexander of the Admiralty to tell us that all's well and the Navy's there. Then, optimism breaking out like a rash over the face of the press, his ever-loving colleague, Mr. Ernie Bevin . . . has to come clattering down like a load of bricks on our heads to tell us that we're too complacent and that times are going to get even tougher. Now if Alex and Ernie could only arrange to make a bookkeeping entry instead of a newspaper...
Pierre Laval, hated as few men have been in French history, looked around last week for men he could trust. Even among Vichy's weaklings and pro-Fascists he apparently found chilly comfort, fired five of them in a Cabinet reshuffle...
...biggest luxuries enjoyed by the NTS men, that of eating in comfort, in gone with the labor shortage, as of Wednesday...