Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan to get an Albert Einstein Commemorative Award, snow-topped Poet Carl Sandburg, 78, downed some scrambled eggs and deplored the U.S.'s manner of pursuing happiness. Result of the pursuit: "Fat-dripping prosperity." Said the Illinois sage: "When the goal of a country is only happiness and comfort, there is danger. Albert Einstein said as much . . . Listen, 'To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me.' You see, he wants the element of struggle in life." What is life's main purpose? "Before you go to sleep at night...
...left behind," Steiner warns them. When their rations give out, Steiner tells them to eat tree bark, but he also shares the last of his own rations. When Dietz is critically wounded in a night skirmish, it is Steiner who holds the dying boy's hand to comfort him. Snaking their way back toward their own lines, the men capture an unarmed Russian women's mortar group. Zoll rapes one of the women. Steiner leaves him behind to be castrated and stomped to death by her avenging sisters in one of the more horrifying scenes in a book...
Under the heading, "Other Activities," there is this entry: "YARD PUNCHES: Every Wednesday afternoon punch is served in the shaded comfort of the Harvard Yard..." A little further down on the same page the following appears: "TOURS: One of the highlights of a summer session is the opportunity which a light study schedule provides for the students to see and enjoy the cultural, historical, and scenic attractions of New England...
...marital, emotional and mental problems . . . While these problems give the pastor an opportunity for a most personal ministry ... it should be recognized that such people frequently need a psychiatrist as well as a pastor . . . Without in any way attempting to minimize the power of the word, or prayer, or comfort that a pastor can bring ... it is obvious that the pastor alone cannot cope with all the problems of a big city congregation, and most pastors will readily agree...
...specifications as laid down by Moscow: a range of 2,000 miles, cruising at 500 m.p.h. at an altitude of 33,000 ft., carrying a crew of six plus 50 passengers in first-class comfort, or 70 passengers tourist style. In emergency operation, said the Russians, it can maintain an altitude of 15,000 ft. on one of its two jet engines...