Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korea last year, decided life as a Stateside training officer was a little dull. He applied for a return to combat duty to round out the normal Korean tour of 100 missions, because "I just wanna go out and do some more shootin'." Last week, in the comfort of his home at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois, the happy warrior posed with his not-so-happy family. The Air Force had granted his request for more combat. His wife, said Jabara, was not enthusiastic, "but she leaves those things...
...shelter of earth's atmosphere. From the sun comes a blast of fierce ultraviolet rays which turn glass black. Ordinary light and heat from the sun are also terrors of space. Most surfaces, especially metals, exposed to the sun above the atmosphere get too hot for comfort. Laboratory calculations show that sunlit aluminum will reach 802° F., well above its softening point...
This week the crime commission began focusing its attention on some of the less savory tricks of the politico's trade-the buying of judgeships, the salary kickback and the use of party funds as private bank accounts. The commission's shift in emphasis, however, was cold comfort to three-fingered Tommy Luchese. Agents of the FBI, the Internal Revenue Bureau, the Treasury Department's Narcotics Bureau, the New York state income tax division and the New York state parole board had all started nosing around in Tommy's past, and Attorney General James McGranery...
...People die behind prison walls quite unnoticed, and without religious comfort." He once witnessed the execution of an 18-year-old boy condemned by a military court. When the soldiers in the firing squad deliberately shot over the boy's head, the prison governor rushed up to kill him with his pistol. "I am not responsible," the governor shrieked at the priest, "I do as I am ordered...
...After a hefty boost from the wartime and postwar housing shortage, trailer makers kept right on rolling; more than 150 manufacturers last year turned out 65,000 units. Where once the trailer was a jerry-built, often homemade affair, it is now a solid living unit scientifically designed for comfort. Once, half of those who bought trailers were tourists; now almost all the nation's 1,750,000 trailer owners live full-time in their mobile homes, parked in 12,000 "trailer parks" (never "camps" to the trade) from coast to coast...