Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Feng Yu-hsiang: "The military set-backs will do us more good than harm. The more defeats we suffer, the more daring is the press in expressing its opinions. Previously we knew little about the fact that our soldiers were underfed and thinly clad." In a national campaign to "comfort the troops," great sums of money were collected. Little was donated direct to the Government for disbursement by slow-moving bureaucrats. But millions of Chinese dollars (on current approved rate, each worth a U.S. nickel) were sent every day to the independent newspaper, Ta Rung Pao, with such covering letters...
...even if true, this was little consolation for civilians. They wanted soldiers to have all the cigarets they needed. The merest shred of comfort came from S. Clay Williams, board chairman of potent R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. To a Senate investigating committee, he confessed that even he had to walk more than a mile for a Camel...
...Eivind Berggrav, alone with his keepers on Christmas Day, may have much to comfort him. The Christian faith renewed by his fervent words and unyielding courage is on the march in Norway, and his occupied but unconquered country echoes the ringing words of Sweden's Bishop Aulen: "Berggrav's spirit has gone free through closed doors and has witnessed that God's words bear no chains...
Last seen coming out of the Harvard Provision with two bottles of Southern Comfort, Charlie Gould and Ernie Barker were the last "gift buyers" around. Everyone else has given up, purchased is two tickets to that lodge in Maine (see C. J. Ritzen, curator of choice guide books), and sunk back into his bridge coat, prepared for the days ahead...
...experts could take some comfort in the closely contested popular vote. For Artist Cox's painting, though conservative and wholly understandable, is done in a subtly stylized manner that is no trite affirmation of standard calendar charms. (At least it was not so realistic as the seascapes by the late Frederick J. Waugh, which the Carnegie public picked for five years running...