Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Close to the Job. Typical of his operation was his decision when the shining new War Department building on Washington's Virginia Avenue was opened two months ago. Its broad halls and stately offices were a beacon for any man who loves comfort and elegance. Many of the civilians in the department moved to the new building. But Henry Stimson hung on to his old office in the rabbit warren of the rambling Munitions building where most of the Army's Washington soldiers work...
Only once does Rauschning comfort himself bitterly with what Prussian Baron Stein said wittily: "One must be able to lose one's luggage several times in life." But Rauschning's crisis is the crisis of conservatives everywhere; he states fearlessly and frankly their difficulties, mistakes, defeats and failures in battle with revolutionary Bolshevism and Naziism. The Conservative Revolution helps to restore to the conservative position the basic sense in which it is acceptable to all men -the sense of conserving human civilization...
...minstrel of death, who dreaded the very word, met it in complete integrity, refusing anesthetic, floated upon the sumptuous hospitality of friends whom he refused to see. "Except for the presence of the doctor and the nurse he died, as he had lived, alone, surrounded by every care and comfort, and suffering the tortures of the damned...
Through and around the enemy whites' artillery, anti-tank defenses, infantry positions and supply lines the black Panzers darted. Only comfort for the surprised, outflanked troops of the Ninth was the providential presence of a protecting swamp in the engineers' path. The black s- would certainly mire in the muck...
...blades are scarce), rides to work on an overcrowded charcoal-burning bus (motor fuel is rationed), climbs long flights of stairs to his office (electricity for elevators is no longer available), eats his noonday meal,(after showing his rice ration card) and goes home to bed without even the comfort of his much-loved steaming hot-water bath (charcoal is scarce); and wonders about glory...