Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest on a dusty, red-plush day-coach seat. Today's soldiers travel across the U.S. two in a lower berth, one in an upper.* The Army now gets 28 Pullmans for each coach. The War Department's Services of Supply gives other reasons than comfort for preferring Pullman travel: 1) when troops move at night by sleeper, nobody is the wiser; 2) civilian rail traffic is lighter at night and trains make better time...
...screamed right out in the courtroom: "You'll never sleep again, Murray!" He tried to comfort Madeline. She broke down and wept and ran her fingers through her Hedy Lamarr hairdo. She sobbed, beat her fists on the table, and sobbed again. He wrote notes to her about how he loved her and how she was the loveliest and most beautiful woman in the world...
...Churchill, who is on duty in the Middle East. But the Commandos have a hardening, unsocial leaven. When a Commando unit raided Boulogne last April, one of the officers was a onetime London police inspector who stepped ashore in carpet slippers. Said he: "I intend to invade France in comfort...
...that the flaming plane looped out of control around the bomber and spun into the ground. After the fight there was more trouble-no doing of the Jap. The bomb doors would not close. Two U.S. enlisted men were lowered on ropes under the speeding plane. Without parachutes for comfort, they shook the doors loose, were hauled back with the certainty of heroes' medals...
...Dunkirk. Home again, on sick leave, in civvies, he grouses about the men who led him: ". . . stupid, complacent and out of date, with no claim to leadership but birth and class and privilege ... in a struggle to preserve the same rotten, wornout conditions that had kept their class in comfort. . . ." When his leave is up, he decides not to go back to the army, becomes a deserter...