Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians could take some small comfort from the fact that the German alchemists had not made out as well as it seemed. They had sold the "gold" on credit, and the Russians had fallen far behind with their payments...
Nanking sent a mission to Formosa to "comfort the people." It was headed by Defense Minister Pai Chung-hsi, who told General Chen to relax his rule, make no more arrests except according...
Last week, as a West Coast waterfront arbitrator considered his case, Brother True Knowledge still hoped to work on the waterfront, but he was learning how to be a carpenter-just in case. He was also deriving comfort from Loving Jeremiah, a four-year-old Negro boy he had adopted three years ago. Sang Loving Jeremiah: "I want to be rolled up, I want to be wrapped up, I want to be tied up in his will, and let the rest of the world roll...
...years later the country went to war. As Britain's people buckled down to their grim existence, they demanded more & more the comfort of seeing their imperial darling. "Why didn't you bring the Princess?" war-plant workers often shouted at the King and Queen. "We want Elizabeth...
...Constellation Star of Hollywood droned over the Atlantic at 250 m.p.h., bound from Newfoundland to the Azores. It was 7:25 p.m. All seemed well. At 19,000 feet she was well above the overcast, and the T.W.A. ship was pressurized for the comfort of 21 passengers and the crew. In a couple of hours the moon would be up. Navigator George Hart climbed into the astrodome, a transparent plastic bubble atop the fuselage, and started to shoot the stars with his sextant...