Word: comfortes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...today's affluent society the horse players are betting $5 more often than $2. Last year the U.S. Treasury stopped printing $2 bills, started gathering in the $115.5 million worth outstanding, and last week announced that the two will be allowed to disappear. Jefferson has one small comfort; he still has a nickel to his name...
...artful dodging of Washington's politicians was little comfort to 31,000 airline employees who are not on strike, but nevertheless are getting neither regular pay nor strike benefits. Many of them looked for temporary work on the ground; TWA Captain Ford S. Blaney-who ordinarily earns $30,000 a year flying a jet-took an $18-a-day job piloting, a gas-eating Chicago taxicab. Nor was there much comfort for some 16,000 passengers of TWA who in most cases were abroad on vacation and found themselves stranded in Europe, unable to get home...
...TIME'S Essay, "The Impact of the American Way" [July 22], is superb as far as it goes. But it is lamentable, if indeed not shameful, that our social institutions have failed to keep abreast of our technological leadership. It is small comfort that the rest of the world emulates our methods and longs for our goodies...
...first woman to become a Belgian senator. He was always something of a political contradiction. Entering Parliament in 1932 as a radical Socialist, he thought nothing of spending a day waving a red flag at a Socialist demonstration, and then retiring to the tennis court or the plush comfort of Brussels' exclusive Leopold Club...
...soap -was an invention of the barbarian Gauls, who made it from goat's tallow and beech ashes. Though the Greeks and Romans praised cleanliness, neither used soap. As late as 1853, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gladstone condemned soap as "most injurious both to the comfort and health of the people." Fortunately, some prejudices come out in the wash...