Word: comfortably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that should be a blessing, a liability that could be an asset. I have no doubt that these problems will some day be solved." A Strong Conviction. There did, of course, remain Cuba as a dark spot on the presidential horizon. But at his news conference, the President drew comfort from the fact that of some 17,000 Cuba-based troops, the Soviet Union has "withdrawn approximately 3,000 in these past weeks. We are waiting to see whether more will be withdrawn, as we would hope they would be." And he felt confident about Cuba's future...
...English, at Philadelphia's crack Germantown Friends School), Mallery now works for the Boston-based National Association of Independent Schools, which sends his reports to public and private schools, teachers, parents and school boards. The effect is to inspire them with the wide range of classroom experimentation, comfort them by showing the similarity of their problems, and warn them away from false goals...
Loughan, of course, cannot be tried again for the same crime. If the jury was correct, he had cheated the gallows. But that was little comfort to Harold Loughan. After the trial he was returned to the prison hospital where, after spending 23 of his 66 years behind bars, he awaits death from inoperable cancer...
...study of the Loire Valley, Fantus will only recommend the types of industries that should be located at various spots, and the French will find the companies. But for worried tourists who picture factory smokestacks raining soot on scenic châteaus, Yaseen has a word of comfort. "It might make economic sense to put a steel factory next to a château," he says, "but it would not make sociological sense. We will have to balance truth with wisdom...
...visual evidence of the Soviet withdrawal of long-range weapons was overwhelmingly convincing. But also shown were photographs taken in the reconnaissance flights that have continued since. And they gave the U.S. small cause for comfort...