Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seaman First Class Leon LeRoy, 18, had an emergency leave and a No. 3 priority. He was on his way to Antioch, Calif. to comfort his recently widowed mother. At Memphis Bluejacket LeRoy was told to get his gear off the plane: his No. 3 priority had been trumped by a No. 1; 300 pounds of critical material was" coming aboard. A Seabee and an Army technical sergeant, both on their way to ailing wives...
...matron sedately pedaling a bicycle to market. What makes these ordinary goings-on extraordinary is the fact that all the actors are war-wounded cripples, with artificial arms or legs. The British Ministry of Information produced the film to reassure its bomb-battered people. It may be some comfort also to families of the 5,000-plus U.S. soldiers (the Navy has released no figures) who have thus far lost arms or legs in World War II and are being refitted for normal civilian life by the U.S. Army...
...most newsworthy of last week's Supreme Court decisions gave a significant victory to labor. But it also brought unexpected tidings of comfort to employers apoplectically gagged in labor disputes by previous court rulings...
From the prisoner's dock came a groan. Chack had slumped to the floor. Attendants carried him to a chair. Again he whispered: "I confess my error. . . . Americans have come to comfort me in my cell. . . . Now I understand America in her humane aspect . . . her aspirations not to become the greatest but the best. . . . That is what I would write...
Secret Subway. The Scientific American led its first issue with a picture of a new railroad car, captioned: "Let any person contrast the awkward and uncouth cars of '35 with these superbly splendid long cars . . . which are calculated to avoid atmospheric resistance and contribute ease and comfort to passengers, while flying at the rate of 30 or 40 miles per hour...