Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sector on the west, where the Allied beachhead in Normandy hung in stalemate and German skill seemed to be accomplishing something. Then came the breakthrough: Brittany was lost, a steel-tipped javelin poised to hurl at Paris, heart of Germany's western defenses. Nor could Hitler find any comfort in the south. There nothing was left except a weary German army, fighting in Northern Italy-where it might yet be trapped...
What Juan Trippe proposed was not only a revolution in speed and comfort in airline travel, but also a revolution in airline thinking. Hitherto airlines have cautiously added planes only when forced into it by increasing business. Trippe plans to get the equipment first and then drum up the business. Eventually he expects to shave passenger fares to 3½? a mile (current average: 8¾?) and thus tap the probably enormous "See South America in Two Weeks" vacation market. He expects to drop average cargo rates to 25.4? per ton mile (current rate...
...State Department, giving a "summary of the position of the U.S. Government," declared that: Argentina had "deliberately violated the pledge" it took at the 1942 Rio de Janeiro Conference to cooperate with the rest of the hemisphere against the Axis. It had "openly and notoriously" given "aid and comfort" to the enemies of the United Nations for two and a half years. The dominant power in its government "was, and continues to be, in the hands of pro-Axis elements." Therefore, the U.S. concluded that the American Republics and their United Nations associates should "firmly adhere to the present policy...
...gave them any comfort, civilians of the London area could compare their robot bomb casualties with those of U.S. fighting men on Saipan. But the bill for Saipan was paid in full, the casualty list closed. The roll of robot victims was still wide open...
...worst effect of all this clashing of wills and systems is not, it seems to me, that the enemy may take brief comfort in the spectacle, but that future relations between America and Britain and restored France may be permanently injured, and that France will seek comfort from Russia for the unreasoning and insulting attitude taken by her Western Allies. However foolish it may seem to us, France can and will take offense at America's patronizingly superior attitude toward a proud and unhumbled people...