Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intervening months will be lonely on the first level, of course, but comfort outranks companionship...
...thought he knew the answer. When his wife objected to what was still, in Biographer Johnson's words, a "technically innocent" relationship, Dickens drove her to a separation while waging an acrimonious publicity duel with her family. But it took Dickens five years to coax Ellen to place "comfort before chastity." Their affair was blotted with self-reproach. Ellen did not really love him, and after Dickens' death she married a clergyman, and said to a friend that she "loathed the very thought of the intimacy" with Dickens...
...Premature." The day after his final conversation with Ike, Churchill flew down to Washington for his last official meeting with President Harry Truman. The Prime Minister arrived at the White House sporting shoes with zippers down the side. Always unabashed in his pursuit of comfort, he did not hesitate to keep his unusual footgear unzippered even at formal functions. In the White House, where he and Truman were joined by Administration bigwigs including Dean Acheson and Secretary of Defense Robert Lovett, Churchill gravely reviewed the global struggle against Communism. Proudly he recalled to his host the 1946 speech at Fulton...
Lattimore once more lashed out against "such vengeful harassment as I have been subjected to for three years." He added: "All that I can do is, in the words of a namesake of mine, to 'be of good comfort and play...
...reference to Hugh Latimer, 16th century Protestant bishop who was burned at the stake during Queen Mary's reign. As he prepared for death, Latimer said to a fellow victim and bishop, Nicholas Ridley: "Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man; we shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England as, I trust, shall never...