Word: comfortes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This may not be the ruggedest way to answer the call of the wild, but its appeal accounts for one of the most notable trends in the automotive industry: a boom in light trucks, which can now be conveniently fitted with "pickup campers," that permit indoor comfort outdoors. Manufactured by nearly 1,000 different companies, they consist of self-contained housing units designed to fit into a truck bed. They have sleeping accommodations for as many as six, plus stove and water tank...
14th Century Comfort. A man with a big head and hair that needs to be cut, Holbrook turned to teaching out of necessity in order to finance his creative writing of poetry and criticism after a career at Cambridge as a reader in English under famed Critic F. R. Leavis. Now comfortably settled with his wife and three children in a 14th century cottage in a hamlet near his alma mater, Holbrook earns far more in royalties as an anthologizer and educational gadfly (total sales: 80,000 copies) than he ever did as a teacher or fiction writer...
...communities in the past, he writes, but within the communities no diversity was tolerated. Wise Roman Catholics steered clear of Puritans, Puritans shunned Anglicans, and Mormons avoided everybody: "Colonial America was an open society dotted with closed enclaves, and one could settle in with his cobelievers in safety and comfort, and exercise the right of oppression...
...clothing, shoes, jewelry and cosmetics, is spending $175.7 billion on such items. This follows a classic economic pattern. First came heavier spending on automobiles and other durables, along with an increase in money paid out for services. Now the shift toward nondurables is being accompanied by a rise in comfort-making durables or services: air-conditioner sales are up 40% this summer; people are spending more for summer camps and club memberships, pianos and hi-fi sets, and there is a young-mothers' move toward daytime baby sitters while they shop...
...suppose that's a comfort...