Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Nazi leaders, conscious of a need to bring otherworldly comfort to their blitzed home front, were rapidly converting from heathen Wotan worship to Christianity. Some notable conversions...
Witness Mr. Roosevelt seated more erectly and less comfortably in a partially upholstered chair of modern design, a chair so typical of the New World where the ideal of utilitarianism and comfort in a piece of furniture is but one manifestation of a nation full of ideals. . . . Its occupant reflects its attributes. For his is the expression of the idealist, the poet of politics with head high...
...reading room of the U.S. Consulate at Valencia, 40 young Spaniards sprawled in cozy comfort. They pored over OWI Spanish-language publications, gazed at the bright posters glorifying the U.S. war effort...
...over. But Solid Fuels Administrator Ickes was gloomy: he predicted that manpower and machinery shortages will make the mines fall well short of next year's 620,000,000-ton goal. Said OWI last week: "While Britain has become accustomed to 'no coal for comfort,' the U.S. enters 1944 on a basis of 'minimum comfort...
Known as the M-4 (the standard tin hat for ground troops is the M-I), the steel-and-leather skull cap weighs but two pounds, compares in looks and comfort with the familiar football helmet...