Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the bureau goes right along with its job, impressively directed. There's a growing cancer of distrust in society, from corn flakes to cars, Pentagon papers to pressed beef, police to press, all are being subject to self-styled revelators. Much of this merely gives aid and comfort to the enemy-crime...
...detailed discussion with Muzammel Huq, a member of a politically active family in East Pakistan. Muzammel knew that his home had been destroyed; he did not know whether his parents were still alive. Certainly he knew that the United States must no longer lend economic and military aid and comfort to the "genocidal" regime in West Pakistan, a position the conference would endorse overwhelmingly. At the interview's end, Burke tried to thank the youth: "Thanks very much, and I wish you...luck." He turned to the side. "That's a helluva thing to say to someone who doesn...
...pride is deflated when she leaves him for a two-day stay with her old lover, and Laurent retaliates by dressing up in her clothes and mimicking her conversations with the man. His confidence bounces back only when she returns in tears and he can, as her confidant, comfort her by saying. "Don't cry--you'll find someone who loves...
...sets out to even the balance. To look at Dorothy and Lou (A. Larry Haines) you'd swear they were a happily married couple (though perhaps a little dull) secure in the comfort of their sleakly cozy, big suburban home. Well then, look again. It's their twenty-fifth anniversary (which Dorothy superstitiously refuses to celebrate) and when questioned on his fidelity Lou suddenly admits to having in the past had two affairs. Two! I've also had two, Dorothy bluffs (or does she?). And the two return to each other's arms only by dropping the issue altogether...
...evident that Hoover, long a master of federal bureaucracy, had managed to swing the Administration back to his side. The Justice Department did one thing for Sullivan. Asked about the FBI announcement that he had retired voluntarily, a department official replied: "That was a Hooverian lie." It was little comfort to Sullivan, who reluctantly gave up his long fight on Oct. 6 and resigned...