Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That Bottle Down. In Virginia, Mrs. Edward Comfort's car unexpectedly overturned when her 15-month-old baby took a swing at her, knocked her silly with a nursing bottle...
...Thomas-Addes faction found comfort in one thing. After weeping over the telephone to Phil Murray, Thomas pulled himself together and, with the help of Murray agents, got himself elected a vice president. George Addes held onto his secretary-treasurer job and Richard Leonard, an in & out Thomas-Addes man, won the second vice-presidency. On top of that, the perverse and unpredictable U.A.W. elected a majority of Thomas-Addes directors. This would be Reuther's executive board. Then the delegates howled down a proposal to give their officers a salary raise and went home...
...Navy's softspoken, sensitive Commodore Ben Wyatt might well have wondered why progress had to sacrifice this lovely coral atoll, instead of an empty wasteland, a dismal slum or a plaguesome Buchenwald. Bikini's tall, tawny Paramount Chief Juda, manor lord of 160 Christian islanders, took comfort in the will of Heaven...
...Times. As an Army intelligence sergeant, he was the chief military writer and editor for Operation Annie, a psychological warfare project of the Twelfth Army Group during the war's last five months. Annie's objective: to win the enemy's confidence by giving him aid & comfort, the better to dupe him later...
...Minnesota that he is his personal friend. On radio station WCCO, he is more popular than Bob Hope and Kate Smith; 65% of the men and 73% of the women who read the Minneapolis Star-Journal never miss his column, "In This Corner." They send him gifts, words of comfort when he is ill and many a hot news tip. One gossipy tidbit was almost too informative. In 1937 Cedric said: "A prominent labor leader . . . will be 'taken for a ride' within two weeks." Ten days later, a union official was murdered...