Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like it here. We do without many of the comforts we have become accustomed to in the States, but I at least have an inner comfort which I did not have before. We are working unmolested, and I think effectively, in a part of the world which has suffered terribly. It is furthermore part of the world lying behind what is sometimes called the Iron Curtain. I can think of no more important place to work for brotherhood and understanding...
...court. Gay and handsome, Hilliard enjoyed himself. Of the artist's life at court, he noted: "It behooveth that he be in heart wise, as it will hardly fail that he shall be amorous." He was appointed limner and goldsmith to Queen Elizabeth ("to my credit and great comfort") and later to James...
...second floor a book counter extending 60 feet in one direction has been set up. Arranged in back of this long counter are 10 book storage sections. This innovation is expected to enable clerks to move the line at an unprecedented rate in the comparative comfort of a large, well-lighted and ventilated room...
...Empty Comfort. Even leftists had their eyes opened. Wrote France's often pro-Communist Franc-Tireur: "In this sad adventure . . . Russia has wound up creating the very [Western] bloc she wanted to avoid. . . ." Wrote London's Laborite Daily Herald: "Russia's present policy is aimed calmly and deliberately at preventing European unity...
Molotov had dealt his French comrades, and Communists everywhere, a cruel blow. The Moscow press offered hollow comfort by declaring that the long-expected U.S. depression was at hand, that the Marshall Plan was merely an attempt to capture markets for the U.S. But Izvestia reminded world Communism of the larger, long-range issues. At Monticello last week, Harry Truman had in effect declared that there was an ideological war on between democratic philosophy and its totalitarian enemies. Izvestia belligerently agreed: "The greatest achievement of world culture-Leninism-illuminates our road. ... A fighting, militant ideology, irreconcilable and merciless...