Word: comfortes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians to spy in the United States. This, of course, is a rather withered cry, but they have given it a new moral twist. They invoke America's "dying youth" in Vietnam and intone righteously that this is no time to cuddle up to a nation giving aid and comfort to Ho Chi Minh...
...John Maynard Keynes once said, "in the long run, we are all dead." As for the short run, "the salient fact about the historical process," says Schlesinger, "is its inscrutability." Of all the ideas explored in this lucidly written book, that is the one guaranteed to offer the least comfort to today's policymakers, whose daily task is to try to make the inscrutable a little less...
...take the J.F.K. presidential plane out of Dallas. It was L.B.J. who balked at the idea and flatly refused to board the plane until he had express approval from Kennedy's staff. As for the Lady Bird, she insisted on going first to do what she could to comfort Jackie Kennedy and Nellie Connally...
...would-be swinger are expected to take a blase if not widely permissive view of LSD, marihuana, and virtually anything else that offers a flight into funsville. Since it helps to have a little intellectual support, the more anxiously hip members of the Now Generation will find some comfort in this one-sided propaganda volume in praise...
...cruelly tortured." In announcing his decision last week to take the Palestine Liberation Organization underground, Chairman Ahmed Shukairy declared that for the moment "the primary struggle is against the tyrant of Amman, Hussein, who has betrayed God, the Prophet, and the Palestine cause." The Israelis, however, can draw small comfort from the Arab feuds. What Shukairy and his supporters in Cairo and Damascus want to do is eliminate Hussein so that they can use Jordan as the springboard for more attacks on Israel...