Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What cold comfort, except for the medical profession, is Reader Dr. Salvatore J. Angelo's "realization that American medicine is the last bulwark of free enterprise in the country, free to a great extent of government control...
...Japan Lefthanders League, which seeks to boost the self-esteem of long-suffering southpaws [Jan. 7], will find comfort in an astonishing fact that I noted while working on a book about the Apollo moon-landing program. Of the 29 astronauts who flew the Apollo missions, no fewer than seven are lefthanded: Walter Schirra, Donn Eisele, James Lovell, Michael Collins, Richard Gordon. Edgar Mitchell and Charles Duke...
...Comfort (2) 2-Alistair Cooke's America, Cooke (1) 3-Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller 4-The Best of Life, edited by David E. Scherman (5) 5-The Imperial Presidency, Schesinger 6-How to Be Your Own Best Friend, Newman & Berkowitz (3) 7-In One Era and Out the Other, Levenson 8-Pentimento, Hellman (10) 9-Will Rogers, The Man and His Times, Ketchum 10-Portrait of a Marriage, Nicolson...
...Stone makes no claim to be the suffering crusader; his greatest joy has been the freedom to live true to his faith--a fairly pessimistic view of humanity's worst impulses mixed with a continuing optimism that the social order may hold them in check: To give a little comfort to the oppressed, to write the truth exactly as I saw it, to make no compromises other than those of quality imposed by own inadequacies, to be free to follow no master other than my own compulsions, to live up to my idealized image of what a true newspaperman should...
Stone's record even belies somewhat his self-appelation as "counterrevolutionary," probably in the eyes of both radicals and bureaucrats. It can be no comfort to Nixon that Stone is an idealist, not a soldier; and in an age of ubiquitous deception, Stone has proven that truth is radical...