Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explaining why adults go to zoos-and why TIME'S editors chose this universal summer pastime for their Fourth of July cover. The photographers, of course, had the first, and toughest, go at the story and got, by all odds, closest to the animals-sometimes too close for comfort. After a day inside the snake house at the San Diego zoo, Photographer Herman V. Wall found that getting out of the way fast at the sound of the rattlesnake's rattle became second nature. Later, while unloading his film holder, Wall learned that the sliding door...
...days in Boston's federal district court, twelve jurors had sat and watched the thin, arrogant face of Traitor Douglas Chandler, the first man in U.S. history to be tried for giving "aid and comfort" to the enemy by broadcasting propaganda...
...read by me while I was sitting by my gravely ill husband's bedside in Geneva. . . . My only hope, expressed out of my utmost bitterness and despair, is that this alleged critic will find himself one day, alone in a strange city, without friends or family to comfort or sustain, at the bedside of a loved...
...Oslo, Aage Hjersing was indicted as a war collaborator. Among other charges: he gave the Wehrmacht aid & comfort by selling them 64 fine Norwegian mousers...
...Small comfort to Wigglesworth occupants is the information that digging and demolition of surrounding earth, trees, sidewalks, and gates will continue throughout the summer. Construction plans call for four levels of subterranean stacks and reading rooms, necessitating the digging of a 34-foot excavation before actual building begins...