Word: comfortably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trim, competent career officer who holds the Bronze Star, Colonel Moranda was depressed at losing his job. But he has the comfort, at least, of knowing that the House Subcommittee on Foreign Operations and Government Information will investigate the affair. And on the eve of his departure from Europe, Stars and Stripes presented him with a certificate making him an honorary lifetime editor. The citation read: "In recognition of his having daringly espoused and cherished the cause of a free press by remaining contumacious in the face of critics...
...decision to depart, then, digs deep into the nature of the man himself. Stepping down from the prestigious post of Dean of Harvard College to become Director of Freshman Studies at an unaccredited Negro College in Alabama contradicts the careful calculations of ordinary minds: the new job assures neither comfort, nor power. Monro will have traded Cambridge, where people often feel they are at the center of the world, for Birmingham, where many people feel out of the way and like...
...Cold Comfort...
...week. With that kind of take, the competition for trade is bound to be keen. As might be expected, the surplus of bodies has been accompanied by a dearth of witnesses and evidence. Just five of the 43 killings have been solved. Bay Staters who derive comfort from the gradual depopulation of the underworld may be deceiving themselves. On at least one occasion, an uninvolved citizen was shot dead for standing too close to the mark...
Freshmen with physical training difficulties eventually find their way to the PT Office. There they get aid and comfort from the secretary, Mrs. Margaret Phillips, who has been "Mrs. PT" to freshmen for the past eight years...