Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Military men could comfort themselves with one thought: on his record, Admiral Leahy did not seem likely to fit into a White House pigeonhole. Navy men who knew him well were sure he would not have taken the job without an understanding with his Commander in Chief that he was to be no mere military adviser. And his appointment would immediately have one important effect: the services would hear less of military strategy from Sociologist Harry Hopkins...
London Asiatic Rubber & Produce Co. Ltd., with properties in Malaya, issued a report to comfort its stockholders...
...catathymic crisis resulting from the same mother fixation which plagued Shakespeare's Hamlet, which for centuries has driven certain types of thwarted men to kill the thing they love the most. Leonski, according to Dr. Wertham, was a lonely, heartsick tenement boy suddenly deprived of all sense of comfort and personal love. Under these circumstances the inhibitions piled up from the time he was a little boy, when his sister said, "He was so good he used to scare me," drove him to one of the rarest and least understood forms of murder-symbolic matricide. Without being aware...
There has been a great increase in the discussion of religion in letters to the editor of the Courier-Journal and Times. Why? Is it the war alone? I don't think so; I think a big reason is that people, some people, find comfort in turning to God when they feel they aren't getting lay leadership. And just the other day Walter Lippmann, discussing that professor who wrote the piece in Collier's about cutting and assembling a new democratic world, said "he [the professor] is the product of an academic system in which...
Fear for the First. Some London and Washington correspondents last week warned the United Nations not to expect a second front very soon. These dispatches may have been no better than many a bad guess from those capitals. But they were no comfort to Moscow. Perhaps the U.S. and Britain were not yet ready, but many a non-Russian who remembered Spain felt that the only unforgivable and irreparable failure would be the failure...