Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...give timely aid & comfort to the miscellaneous followers of Henry A. Wallace and others of their ilk abroad, thus stirring up a popular clamor to make Western Governments appease Russia further...
While Manhattan theatergoers took what cold comfort they could from warmed-over operettas and a blurry reprint of The Front Page, London had Laurence Olivier's majestic production of King Lear. By early morning of the day before the opening, Londoners had queued up for gallery seats in the Old Vic's new theater on St. Martin's Lane. After the show a mob of howling men converged on the stage door chanting "Two, four, six, eight, who do we appreciate? LARRY...
...erudite inmates of the ivy-covered squirrel-cage. This indeterminable-hued divan has sustained the weight of the wearer of the blackest, thickest-rimmed glasses among Cambridge cognoscenti. It has also supported innumerable bodies beneath as many heads holding rimless spectacles, prime among these being Cairnie himself. For sitting comfort, the Grolier ottoman is approached only by the bootblack stand at Felix's Shoe Shine Spa, and there the conversation hardly runs beyond static monosyllables in praise of one Williams, a baseball player from San Diego...
From London came an audible sigh. Moscow refrained from comment. Mr. Truman, extracted what comfort he could from the fact that he had acted, in the end, with respectable firmness; he had repaired the damage he had done to Byrnes's prestige. And now Henry Wallace could say what he liked and fight all he wanted for the policy which he espoused...
...comfort upset honeymooners the staid National Geographic Society rushed out a Washington bulletin describing "the thundering crash of hard dolomite rock ... as a normal part of a continuing process." But the voice of calm soon fell on reddened ears. After a closer look at their instruments, Canisius seismologists blurted: "Only a brontide [a low muffled sound caused by feeble earth tremors]." After a closer look at the Falls, Niagara Park Superintendent Francis Seyfried found them undamaged. Said he: "We have checked with the Army engineers and examined pictures and surveys going back...