Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eastern European satellites. It barred Finland from becoming a base for aggression against the Soviet Union by "Germany or any nation allied with her," and provided that the two countries "will consult each other in event of a threat of military attack." Paasikivi and other Finns comforted themselves with this consultation clause, but the comfort was coldish. Moscow could dig up a "threat" any day it had a mind...
...paintings were never like armchairs, but there was something soothing in their luxurious brilliance, and they sold well enough to provide him with plenty of armchair comfort. "Tell the American people," he urged a reporter, "that I am a devoted husband and father . . . that I go to the theater, ride horseback, have a comfortable home, a fine garden that I love . . . just like...
...long as America does not do these things, she allows Frenchmen and Belgians to wonder if, after all, they would really be defended, or if they would have coldly to comfort themselves with the promise of another liberation...
Read and R. P. Blackmur; a short story of the war by Alex Comfort that was a good grenade throw above most slick-magazine fiction. The editors regard "evaluating currently dominant literary reputations" as part of their charter. Accordingly, Vol.1, No.1 gave the back of its hand to the "dreary wastes" of homosexuality in Truman Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms, and Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar. Some other little magazines, just popped up or popping...
Leverett is a House where the incoming Sophomore will find friends, privacy if he wants it, a library strong in History and American Literature, and general comfort in suites ranging from spacious multiples to cramped two-man singles...