Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart and preached the verity of all dogma and actions of the Church of Rome, or, once stating his opposition, to have stuck to his points. As the case of the unfrocked priest, I feel very sorry for him as he has been unable to find true comfort in Christ...
...this simple expression of the obvious touched off extraordinary reactions. Asian anti-Communists were notably cheered by Dulles' speech. The anti-Communist Hong Kong newspaper, Sing Tao Jih Pao, said that Dulles brought "joy and comfort." Other Asian voices recalled the Korean truce, the Indo-China truce and the Tachen Islands evacuation, and said that Dulles' announcement on the offshore islands between Formosa and the mainland indicated that the U.S. had finally made up its mind to take a stand. The Dulles sentence that most impressed Asians: "If the non-Communist Asians ever come to feel that their...
...news. Columnist Stewart Alsop concluded that the Kremlin had made up its mind that "war is probable if not inevitable." Former Under Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith, once Ambassador to Moscow, gloomed: "I don't like the look of it . . .I can't take any comfort from all this...
Most of the rest of the world found comfort in the fact that the evacuation had been made in peace, and found reassurance in the unchallenged display of U.S. might. But the U.S. Navy's fighting men took little satisfaction in what they regarded as a reverse operation. Admiral Sabin did not blame the Chinese Reds for staying at home: "It would have been a stupid thing to pay in blood and lives for something they were going to get for nothing...
...career became a British legend, faithfully recorded in Paul Brickhill's biography, Reach for the Sky (TIME, Aug. 2). Today, at 45, as adviser for flight operations for Shell Petroleum Co., Ltd., Group Captain Bader must do some of his traveling in commercial airliners-and for all their comfort, he does not like them...