Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...destroyed, what does it matter if I lose everything?" No bombs fell, and the play-love mixed with politics, a debonair French man and a Nazi-persecuted Austrian countess-was a hit. Proceeds of the first night went to soldiers in the Maginot Line, in the form of comfort kits...
Chamberlain tried to comfort the home front, but his main theme was to reassure the neutrals suffering from the British blockade. "We do not for one moment question the rights of neutrals to decide whether they shall come into the conflict or stay out of it," he said. "But we do ask them, whether they be small or weak or whether they are great and powerful, to consider that though, in the exercise of our undisputed belligerent rights, we may have taken action which causes them inconvenience or even loss, at any rate we have never sunk a neutral ship...
With a cruising range of more than 1,000 miles (at 325 m.p.h.) it can operate above 36,000 feet, lugs its pilot in comfort in a streamlined cabin with automobile-type doors. Strangest thing about it is that its engine, a 1,000 h. p., Prestone-cooled, inline Allison, is not in the nose, but behind the pilot. Built for sleek streamlining, the twelve-cylinder Allison (made by General Motors) drives the three-bladed prop through a shaft. Best thing about this is that it makes Airacobra's air-splitting nose thin and wartless, still leaves room...
...least shows that the authorities are determined to act. There is much more that the University can and should do. Badly organized courses, dull lecturers, and unhelpful section men are still common. As long as they are present, students will be driven across Mass. Avenue for aid and comfort...
This sort of thing breathed o'er Manhattan for two years. A proposal to put a comfort station in the Central Park elephant house brought a politico to his feet to inquire why, in the name of Big Tim, did elephants need comfort stations? Councilman Sharkey regularly aired his heartfelt campaign to insure full measure in beer glasses. Once towering, revolutionary-stocky Fusionist A. Newbold Morris, Council president, started down from the chair, gavel in hand, after cocky little Democrat Charley Keegan from The Bronx. "Come down here," yelled Councilman Keegan, dancing joyously, "I'll cut you down...