Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Women had never given him comfort or peace. In the orphanage, in the Navy, in these last months of drifting, they had always subtly domineered over him. Before his wife left him, he had cut her with a razor. He was restless tonight, and lonely. Suddenly he made up his mind to get drunk and stay drunk. Before he went out he put his safety razor in his pocket. Even on a binge, he liked to stay neatly shaved...
This week Boeing proudly let out the 130,000-lb. secret. The new ship is Boeing's postwar superairliner, the "Strato-cruiser," in a military transport version. Boeing says the Stratocruiser can fly 100 passengers, in the plushiest kind of comfort, from New York to London in eleven hours; from New York to Los Angeles in seven. Clairmont Leroy Egtvedt, Boeing's conservative board chairman, published the startling figures...
...people did more than reject a tradition against extra Presidential terms. They reversed a historic decision of 25 years ago, when the U.S. embraced isolationism after World War I. In the 1944 election no isolationist could find comfort. The people had spoken for international cooperation...
When a London hospital chaplain recently appealed for books, tobacco and other comforts for Nazi prisoners of war, many a sporting Briton responded. But not the Rev. Harold Green, vicar of Ipswich's St. Nicholas' Church. Wrote he: "Having seen your tenderhearted request for comforts for the blasphemers of God and butchers of men, I herewith send a small comfort which I am sure will be good for them. . . ." The Vicar's contribution was a tin of rat poison...
With course schedules settled and rooms furnished to the point of livable comfort, the newest Harvard class casts a collectively lively eye about in search of traditional activities desiring their participation and offering undergraduate experiences of the customary College type...