Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ladies were pretty well satisfied. Gloated Vassar's Dean Mildred Thompson: "Men used to have a safe refuge ... in the corner saloon. . . . But now, when he seeks comfort at his favorite saloon, whom does he find with feet on the brass rail beside him? Woman...
...this time the magnet of politics held the anti-Dev chips together. The victors elected unassuming 56-year-old John Aloysius Costello, K.C., Fine Gael frontbencher, as Eire's new Premier. To the comfort of tradition, Mr. Costello (accent on first syllable) was a devout Roman Catholic and family man (five children...
From Finance Minister Douglas Abbott, Parliament got a preliminary tally on Canada's foreign business in 1947, found no comfort in the figures. The Dominion had spent $1,155,000,000 more in the U.S. than the U.S. had spent in Canada. Counting other deals (e.g., a $74 million subscription to the International Monetary Fund), the Dominion's deficit in U.S. currency was $1,395,000,000. Because only $652 million came in from Britain and other hard-up customers, Canada had dipped into reserves for $743 million...
...Club's Charles Strub, who runs Santa Anita Park, was second ($541,412), well ahead of Mayer ($502,571). International Business Machines Corp.'s Thomas J. ("Think") Watson was fourth ($425,548). A new name was in fifth place: F. E. Fowler, president of liqueur-making Southern Comfort Corp...
...husband in his heyday. Through the world cartel he created with the British and Dutch (in 1930), he could squeeze the Unless, smelterless U.S. (which normally consumes more than half of world tin production). But in World War II, when Simon was too friendly with the Nazis for British comfort, the cartel came apart. Alarmed, Patino tried to get back into U.S. good graces. Later, Chase National Bank's Vice President Joseph C. Rovensky became chairman of his board...