Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before Hodgson intervened, Russia had the U.S. and Britain over a barrel. No one seriously believed that Franco was about to go on the warpath, and Gromyko had no constructive proposal on how to get rid of him. But if Stettinius and Cadogan voted tacit aid & comfort to Franco by defeating Gromyko, Russia could use that fact to advance her own ends, from Trieste to Tokyo. If the West continued to do nothing about Franco, it would in crease the chance that his successor will be more Communist than democratic...
Poland, of course, sided with Russia. France's suavely soothing Henri Bonnet gave Russia some unexpected comfort by observing that it would be setting a possibly embarrassing precedent to deprive a small nation of her right to withdraw a complaint against a big nation. But his colleagues were in no mood for compromise...
...live. To keep the next heir, Edward's 55-year-old son Albert, from starving, the Government obligingly plans to remove the family entail from Trafalgar House. When and if it is sold, future heirs will retain only an empty earldom, a coat of arms, and the bitter comfort of the Nelson family motto: "Let him wear the palm who has deserved...
Sheean fought World War II in Africa, Europe, Asia, Washington, D.C. Sometimes his job, and his living quarters were so pleasant that "I felt heartily ashamed of [our] comfort [while] our combat units, replete with Spam, [were] contesting with the cold and the mud." Yet even air intelligence officers had their share of bombs to duck, their jobs to do. Off the Salerno beachhead Major Sheean's ship, the Ancon, stood up to 19 German bombings in one day. Beyond Salerno itself a sudden German ground thrust nearly caught Major Sheean asleep, forced him to evacuate in such...
Years later, in 1942, Van Wyck quoted a piece of Sargent's Autobiography which cited some of the objections. Among them were "the brief costumes required for sufficient comfort," and "the coeducational freedom necessary for gymnastics and the practice of athletics." These factors eventually forced Sargent to start a separate women's college next to Hemenway Gymnasium...