Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...immediate dangers, because at this stage of the bomb's development huge production plants (which exist in the U.S. alone) are necessary. But over the next ten or 15 years the prospect was one in which even the bomb's first victims found a bitter grain of comfort...
World War II has brought a spate of innovations, ranging from the G.I.-adopted Shangri-La (designating a comfort-station in the South Seas) to the experienced tires hopefully advertised by second-hand automobile dealers. Only in the field of creative swearing, concludes Author Mencken, has American verbal fecundity sunk as low as Britain...
Tokyo's offer of surrender did not mean the immediate end of fighting; that had to go on until the surrender was completed. Men killed and were killed. Those who lived had one immediate comfort: they who had stormed scores of Pacific beaches under fire felt sure that the bloodiest invasion of all would be called off; men destined to occupy Japan would walk ashore down gangways, instead of fighting in the shallows and on the sands...
...Moral of It All." The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. G. F. Fisher, was not afraid of "endless destruction." "In time this discovery will immensely increase the ease of human life. . . . Great comfort is a temptation more dangerous than great danger. To use the increased leisure and to use it fruitfully will call for an increase in man's own spiritual resources. Men must become better men. That is the moral...
...corner of Nebraska last week produced a bumper crop of artistic excitement. David City and Shelby -18 miles apart-were each sporting a one-man painting exhibition by a native son. Both shows, first ever staged in these Nebraska towns, were smash hits. They were also too coincidental for comfort. Almost before the ink was dry on the invitations, Shelbyans and David Cityans were hopping mad at each other. There was even talk of letting the artists settle their differences with pitchforks...