Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...certainly no comfort to know that if they smoked no more cigarets than they had a year ago, the shortage would end. As they automatically fell in at the end of any line, hoping that cigarets were being sold at the other end, they took a wry pleasure in the knowledge that their misery would soon have company. Pipe tobacco was becoming scarce. Chewing tobacco was next...
...discussed the royalty proposal with ironic innocence, as though he expected applause any minute from his squirming listeners. The royalty fund would enable the union to provide modern medical service, hospitalization, insurance, rehabilitation and-economic protection. Did not his listeners hope for the betterment, the protection, the comfort of their fellow men? He was certain that there could be no objection to this wholly charitable and worthy request...
...cannot describe to the House the aid and comfort he has been to me in all our difficulties. . . . His unequaled experience at the Foreign Office, his knowledge of foreign affairs and its past history, his experience of conferences of all kinds, his breadth of view, his power of exposition, his moral courage have gained for him a position second to none among the foreign secretaries of the Grand Alliance...
...South our proud independence, the Middle West our practical realism, the Far West our belief in the impossible. Spice all this with a flavor of cynicism and humanitarianism from the Jews, humor and hotheadedness from the Irish, sex and sophistication from the French and sentimentality and love of comfort from the old-fashioned Germans, and you have a rough outline of essential Americanism. It is a lot bigger than anything that ever happened in poor little New England...
...might find what comfort he could in the news that, statistically, there is no acute match shortage. This year the U.S. will produce 460 billion matches (475 billion in 1944), using its own chlorate of potash instead of importing it, as before the war. But, practically, there is a shortage. Reason: the military has taken all the safety (penny-box) matches, and 35% of the paper-folder kind. U.S. civilians get what is left...