Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Even at biological conferences, research reports were vague and evasive. Scientists who wanted more details were told again & again, "Sorry, but I can't answer that question without giving aid & comfort to the enemy...
Their cabin, which blimpmen call "the car," is fitted out with airline luxury-three bunks, chrome chairs, cookstove. There is a reason for these comforts. Effective watch is a terrible strain, especially when the lookout must scan not only the surface, but underwater-for U-boats have a habit of lying motionless on the continental shelf in daytime. Consequently blimp observers can stand watch only a little over an hour at a time, are encouraged to doze during the off watches. Any comfort they can be given is not wasted...
...Churchill is not only the leader of the Conservative Party. He is the Prime Minister of a nation united in a great purpose, but to make major claims for his party in its share in victory before victory is won may shake belief in our fundamental unity and give comfort to the enemy...
...sequences of a trite situation, it managed to get over the idea that the boys in the Army can't hear from home too often, worry if they don't. It also offered the reassuring information that the boys can always turn to their chaplain for comfort and guidance...
...some, realism so simple may well seem as devastating as frost in a hothouse for orchids. But such people may take comfort in the thought that Professor Spykman is not infallible, that the cult of realism has its own limitations and coldbloodedness leads to its own kind of distortion. To others, tired of statesmanship by euphemism and eye-catching phonies, Spykman's plain talking seems a bracing corrective...