Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after the run the plane is pressurized again by opening an intake valve. The men can then doff their masks and heavy clothes, fly home in comfort...
...often for his own comfort, these illnesses were not feigned. Nineteen times in the last 20 years, Menemencioglu submitted to surgical operations, thrice having platinum ribs inserted in his body. Even this hard-case record was chalked up against him by some adversaries who knew that his personal surgeon was a German, General Professor Ferdinand Sauerbruch...
Lloyds offered 33-to-1 against any newsman's bet that he would be killed. But professionally imaginative correspondents took little comfort from these odds, or from such grim expressions of goodwill as were offered by the commanding officer of the assault unit to which A. P.'s lank, drawling Don Whitehead was assigned; Said the C.O.: "We are ready to help you. . . . The people at home won't know what is happening unless you are given information and I want them to know. ... If you're wounded, we'll take care...
...that it would accept battle only north of Rome at a place chosen by it. . . .' Napoleon Bonaparte, who knew the weaknesses of divided command as well as anyone in history, once said: Give me allies to fight against. Though Teuton militarists admire Napoleon very much, there was no comfort in his dictum for the Germans who faced Alexander. In Italy, Alexander was certainly commanding allies, but in Egypt he had successfully managed an even more polyglot and rainbow-hued aggregation. He had learned how to get air, naval and ground commanders to function smoothly together. His was no divided...
...Their standards of food, sanitation and comfort are so high and their astonishment and disgust when expected to put up with lower standards so unfeigned and unrancorous that the Germans, unwilling to admit that their own standards are lower, are shamed into making improvements...