Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Haunting the President's restless mind was Manila's lack of air-raid shelters. U.S. authorities expect that if war begins Tokyo will be worse bombed than Manila, but talk about bombing the paper cities of Japan is no comfort to Quezon. In the old city of Manila, walled and narrow, there are no underground shelters, for the water table is only three feet underground. Underground shelters are not a necessity if Manila receives only sporadic bombings, but a greater danger than bombs is fire...
...Libyan desert was not yet won. The British had gained at least their first objective, the relief of Tobruk (see p. 23). If the ferocity of German resistance made the course of the battle still a cause for anxiety (see p. 23), U.S. bystanders could at least take comfort from the good showing made by U.S. equipment (see p. 66). Decision one way or the other in the main battle could...
...primary reason" advanced by those who don't want war discussed in church, reported Pollster George Horace Gallup, "is that the church is a place for 'spiritual escape,' a place for 'peace and comfort' away from the storms of life, and not a place for controversy...
...tons or bigger; the other five will be the biggest, most powerful ever launched-58,000 tons. The Big Five (Montana, Ohio, Maine, New Hampshire and Louisiana) will not be laid down until oversize ways have been prepared for them. Meanwhile, Navy men find a particular comfort in their completed plans: as far as they know, the Japanese are planning nothing like them...
...like Colonel Richard Stewart Hooker, who could "roar like a sea lion, or coo like a dove." It enjoyed the Marines' practical joking, as when four leathernecks started a Communist scare by raising a red cur tain on the U.S. Embassy flagpole. The nervous International Settlement took special comfort in the Marines after Shanghai's British garrison left last year, after the Japanese got control of the Settlement's governing council last...