Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shall always respect war hereafter. The cost of life, the dreary havoc of comfort and time, are overpaid by the vistas it opens of eternal life, eternal law, reconstructing and uplifting society-breaks up the old horizon and we see through the rifts a wider vista."-R. W. Emerson: Letter to Thomas Carlyle, Sept...
...that when your work is done and your long day ended, you may still be like a watchman's fire at the end of a lonely road-loved and cherished for your gracious glow by all good wayfarers who need light in their darkness and warmth for their comfort...
...Forces will have many more like her, for the Army will get all that Lockheed can make. Built for the luxury trade, the Constellations will keep some of their comfort features, notably the supercharging system which keeps pressure in the cabin at the equivalent of 8,000 ft. while they fly at their best altitude-20,000 ft.-or crawl up as far as 35,000 to get over storms...
...SERVICES AND THEY KNOW IT. THESE "DRAFT DODGERS" ARE VOLUNTEERING FOR AS TEDIOUS, AS HAZARDOUS AND AS ESSENTIAL A DUTY AS THERE IS IN THE WHOLE WAR PROGRAM. THESE "PROFITEERS" COULD MAKE MORE MONEY IN DETROIT OR GARY OR CLEVELAND FROM THE BACKGROUND OF THEIR OWN HOMES WITH THE COMFORT AND PLEASURES OF PRIVATE LIFE THAN THEY WILL MAKE ON THE LONG, COLD VOYAGES TO THE ARCTIC OR RUNNING THE GANTLET OF "BOMB ALLEY." THE "ROUGH AND RAMBUNCTIOUS . . . 13-WEEK TRAINEES" SEEM TO ME, AND I HAVE HAD OVER 40 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN HANDLING AND JUDGING GROUPS...
...your first lieutenant's commission in the Twentieth." Holmes returned the copy of Leviathan, went off to war and a wound in the throat at Antietam. "As he grew older," writes Biddle, "the thought of war came to mean ... a selfless surrender of individual comfort and ambition to some mystic faith that drew brave men together." Said Holmes in a Memorial Day address...