Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Automobile tire sales were ballooning. A severe winter slump had persuaded tiremakers that they were up against a postwar decline,* and they had gone after customers with talk of new styles and promises of greater comfort. Firestone brought out a low-pressure "super balloon tire", U.S. Rubber an "Innacush" (industrial solid tire), and Goodrich a tubeless tire. But buyers hardly noticed the new offerings; they just needed tires all of a sudden, and standard models were plenty good enough...
...Affectation. Between their colorful opening service at Canterbury Cathedral (TIME, July 12) and an equally colorful closing at Westminster Abbey on Aug. 8, the prelates worked five weeks in private with a businesslike disregard for comfort or show. With brief intermissions for communal lunch and tea, they met in the bomb-scarred Great Hall of Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury's London residence. They sat on hard wooden chairs (former conferences used comfort able armchairs and each bishop took home his chair as a memento). "There has nev er," commented the Manchester Guardian, "been a Lambeth Conference...
...vital to draw the parallel between this character and those who eventually reaped a murderous harvest for their countries after taking refuge within a liberal constitution . . . You must show him, and prove him, to be what he is-primarily an opportunistic politician who is giving aid and comfort to those who are pledged to destroy our system of government...
...Trend. While Uruguay has been finding a way to live in comfort, something else has been going on. Under President Berreta, who died a year ago, and even more under President Batlle, Uruguay has been moving gradually towards a moderate socialism...
...Kremlin was looking for signs of wavering, it found no comfort in the Republican opposition. At his Pawling, N.Y. farm, Governor Thomas E. Dewey conferred with Harold Stassen, talked daily with Foreign Adviser Dulles, who had been thoroughly briefed by George Marshall. General Dwight Eisenhower accepted an urgent invitation to come up for a talk. At a joint press conference, Eisenhower declared: "We agreed that our country must stand with absolute firmness in Berlin...