Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military commander (to date, exemplary). It would take the effort of countless lesser officials who, despite the vagaries of American policy, continue their little-publicized work of rebuilding Berlin trade unions, newspapers, subways. It would take, also, the resolution of thousands of American men & women who, despite their suburban comfort, belong to this same Berlin which is ringed by enough Soviet tanks and planes, thinly veiled from view, to hurl a major offensive toward the Rhine...
...artists . . . you're only the hands of the machine and you know there's nothing in America that can stand up against the machine. If you were 'Art Directors' . . . you would put the machine in its place . . . You all use your work for comfort. There's no beauty or truth in it ... What is there you really reverence? ... Is there anything in God's name you wouldn't exploit...
Were the cold parents freezing their children into schizophrenia? Dr. Kanner did not say yes or no; but he has found no case of infantile autism among children of "unsophisticated" parents. Said he of his pathetic patients: "Their withdrawal seems to be an act of turning away . . . to seek comfort in solitude...
...young children, playgrounds full of swings and teeters; for older children, necking-room free of cops & robbers; for mother & father, an evening out without the expense of a baby sitter or the trouble of parking; for the aged, infirm or overweight, the chance to see a movie in comfort. For everyone, there are snack bars (with car service), rest rooms, fresh air and, in season, mosquitoes. And proprietors are still innovating: last week, one Tennessee drive-in added a while-you-wait laundry service...
...latest convenience is an artificial "moon," of amber and green shaded lights, that perches on a tall pole in the rear of the parking area, enabling patrons to grope their way to comfort stations and move their cars about without smashing fenders...