Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...orderlies expressed nothing but admiration for the nurses, who give comfort to the patients and have their confidence as no one else in the hospital. The volunteers were struck by the large amount of work done by these public servants. In addition to their seriousness of purpose, the nurses were characterized by their youthful beauty, and love for jitterbugging...
...Sabotage, for the first time in any U.S. war, is classified as a military secret. Whether this far-from-clarified taboo serves to withhold "aid & comfort" from the enemy is debatable, but it has succeeded in creating the erroneous impression that sabotage in this war, unlike World War I, is virtually nonexistent...
...concoctions may disappear. Because distilleries are making alcohol for munitions and synthetic rubber, gin will get scarce; so will some whiskeys. But U.S. liquor stocks on the whole add up to perhaps a sober four-year supply. Most seriously threatened U.S. pastime is travel; most seriously threatened U.S. comfort is servants, handymen, and repairmen (because of the draft and war jobs for women); to the extent that it is real "suffering" for the citizen to have to stay at home more and to do his own house and yard work, the citizen will suffer...
...many of the goods that they have always wanted and never before could afford. 2) The accustomed-to-be-well-paid will be taxed to the point of having to get on with wrhat they have-which, in most cases, should be more than enough for comfort...
...total war in which the things that happen behind the lines and along the lines of communication have an importance comparable with the things that happen at the Army and Navy battle-fronts. It is no longer, as we look at it a question at personal safety or comfort. It is a question whether this nation can survive as the kind of place we want to live...