Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most people who read his words felt reassured at once. There was no need of higher authority; not J. P. Morgan, not even Franklin Roosevelt could be of as much comfort to the public. To many a U. S. citizen, great or small, if Jesse Jones says...
They were mostly three-or four-story structures-musty headquarters for centuries of proud merchant traders, insurance brokers and craftsmen who preferred tradition to comfort. Here & there stood the steel skeleton of a modern building, its girders fantastically warped and bulged by heat. Fleet Street, mecca of British journalism, was badly hit, and behind it stood the blackened hulk of the Associated Press building. St. Bride's white spire, Wren's "madrigal in stone," stood alone over the ruins of the church. Supreme amid wreckage rose the great dome of St. Paul's, saved through the devotion...
With their invasions in reverse on two fronts, their supply lines badly snarled, their Navy and Air Forces no more effective than their Armies, Italians this week took what comfort they could from the words of the Rome radio...
...standard-speed, range, comfort, power-the U. S. Navy's new destroyers (1,500-1,650 tons) are as much superior to the 50 "tin cans" given to Great Britain in the bases deal as a 1941 Cadillac limousine is to a 1908 Maxwell roadster. Yet the Navy was sorry to see its 50 old four-pipers go. They were pesky, hard-sledding, pitched and rolled in any kind of sea with the unpredictable ill humor of a sunfishing mustang. But they were ships. They were reasonably fast (around 35 knots) and they could still make...
...companions nicknamed him "Smigly" (nimble) to describe his particular qualities. After 18 days of fighting, with Hitler's Army snapping at his heels, the nimble Marshal quit the field and skipped across to Rumania, where dignified internment in the Carpathian village of Tasmana enabled him to pursue in comfort his hobbies of gardening and landscape painting...