Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anglophobes. The Stettinius statement also gave aid & comfort to those in the U.S. who practice a secondary form of isolationism: Anglophobia. In the Senate, up rose Louisiana's stocky, curly haired Allen J. Ellender, a graduate of the Huey Long school of Tommy-gun politics, now turned world statesman. Cried...
Among those read were, "Spring and Fall," "Felix Randall," "The Leaden Echo and Golden Echo," "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of Resurrection," "The Windhover," and three sonnets...
...largest, reached 72 miles from Austria's nearest frontier. Mud was a curse. Moscow newspapers told of one unit that wallowed through mud for days, finally reached its first highway. Men cheered when they saw the narrow ribbon of asphalt, happily lay down to sleep on the unique comfort of firm ground...
...gripes of cigaret-short U.S. civilians were tempered by the thought that at least the boys overseas were getting plenty. But that small comfort began to disappear fortnight ago when the weekly G.I. ration in London was cut from seven to five packs. Last week it vanished altogether when cigaret sales were stopped in all rear-area PXs in France and England, except at air combat stations, rest and replacement centers, and hospitals. Clamored the Army newspaper Stars & Stripes: "Where are the cigarets...
...most charming characteristics of Homo Sapiens-the wise guy on your right-is the consistency with which he has stoned, crucified, burned at the stake and otherwise rid himself of those who consecrated their lives to his further comfort and well-being so that all his strength and cunning might be preserved for the erection of ever larger monuments, memorial shafts, triumphal arches, pyramids and obelisks to the eternal glory of generals on horseback, tyrants, usurpers, dictators, politicians, and other heroes -who led him, usually from the rear, to dismemberment and death...