Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They are only meant to terrify and comfort...
...sisters. She married for the first time at 14 and was widowed at 19. In 1957 she married Payton Waddles, who now makes $ 11,000 a year at the laundry at the Ford River Rouge complex. She plunged into practical missionary work in earnest. "The Bible says we should comfort one another," she says, "but you can't comfort the hungry without food, or the naked without clothing or the sick without medical care." She will soon open a free clinic staffed by eight volunteer doctors and fed by a medicinal lifeline from McKesson & Robbins drug company. She herself...
...keeping role as long as it is merely a collection of sovereign nations subject to big power veto -which is what it obviously is destined to remain. At best, the U.N. can shorten wars and arrange precarious truces. Lately it has not even been able to accomplish that. The comforting cliche about the U.N. is that it is better than nothing, that at least it provides a place where belligerents can talk. That remains true, but the comfort is wearing thin. The trouble is that one keeps thinking of it as a separate entity with a conscience and the power...
...Neill anticipated them in Strange Interlude more than forty years ago. The eminent playwright, however, apparently thought that women themselves were responsible in part for the establishment of a masculine Godhead. In Strange Interlude the dramatist has his heroine say, when her father dies and she can find no comfort in prayer...
...architects of the Benson policies that forced hundreds of thousands of farmers off the land." Yet Butz served notice that he intends to fight for farm interests. Shortly after Nixon introduced him to newsmen, he turned to Hardin and said pointedly: "The price of corn is too low for comfort, Mr. Secretary -it's below the cost level...