Word: comfortes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some way or another, concerns itself with the quality of life, and too often nowadays it seems that man's dreams of Utopia have become nightmares of dirt and despair. The atmosphere stifles rather than sustains; water poisons rather than refreshes; machinery and appliances invented for service and comfort fail to function and sometimes even maim and kill. What has anyone done about it? Until fairly recently, not a great deal. This week TIME'S cover tells the story of Ralph Nader, one man who felt that something had to be done...
...moved from the Gund Hall construction site to occupy the Faculty Dining Club, a place where Harvard Faculty members relax in leisure and comfort and dine in elegance ignoring the fact that black people are suffering at the hands of Harvard's Racist Policies," he said...
...smiled wanly. One friendly hug from Henry wasn't enough. "That's all I want-just someone to comfort me when I'm feeling low. None of your big sex stuff, just some friendly guy. You know how sometimes you cry for no reason at all? Like there's nothing you can do because there's nothing you're really sad about. Sothere's nothing that can make it better. Just someone to be there with you and tell you it's all right. I just got married but my husband is in Canada and I have to wait here...
...important to remember that the U.S. in Viet Nam faces an unusually brutal enemy who uses terror deliberately (see box, page 29). But that certainly is no excuse for American behavior at My Lai. It is also small comfort to the U.S. that other Western nations have been guilty of wartime atrocities. The French executed some 15,000 Moslems in the long Algerian war of the 1950s. At Amritsar in India's Punjab, British Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer marched 50 of his soldiers toward a menacing mob of Indians in 1919 and, without warning, they killed 379 people with rifle...
...Patience. An old Indo-China hand who once served in Vientiane and Hanoi during the French days, Rives concedes that "we're moving very slowly here." With good reason. Prince Sihanouk broke relations with Washington in 1965, partly because he considered the U.S. presence too big for comfort. It had grown to more than 200 people and an aid budget of $30 million a year. Nowadays, Sihanouk's chief fear is that a Communist victory in Viet Nam might encourage the 40,000 uninvited North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops who now use Cambodia as a sanctuary...