Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early this month, Bernard Mannes Baruch gave the Wall Street Journal an interview which was a great comfort to U.S. appeasers (of whom Baruch is not one). If Hitler wins Europe, said he, then Hitler, not the U.S., will be "on the spot" economically. "Where can she sell her products?" Not in the U.S., old Europe's No. 1 market; and the U.S. could also keep Hitler out of any desired neutral market simply by keeping its own prices down...
...aviator has quit flying and taken to talking. Thirteen years ago his picture was hung on college walls, a symbol of youth ready to risk and adventure for the sake of great achievement. Now all of a sudden that same daring aviator has begun to talk the language of comfort and safety first and of breakfast at home with mother...
...Crew members of the 125-ft. Coast Guard patrol boat General Greene, home at Woods Hole, Mass, from patrol off Greenland, reported that the ship had been too close for comfort to the battle between the Hood and the Bismarck. While attacking planes roared overhead in the fog, the reverberations of the big guns shook the General Greene, and "some of the shells came mighty near our starboard side...
...have two souls," he declared during a lecture tour of U.S. universities in 1931. "One is that of a man of the world who enjoys ease and comfort and a nice season at Newport. The other is that of a man who likes to squat in a dirty Arab tent, full of Arabs, and eat with his fingers. . . . The desert is my bride. ..." Adolf Hitler was fighting only Bolsheviks, Oppenheim added, and nice persons needn't be afraid: "We are not a people of revenge. . . . We want only a chance to work...
...midnight he went to another part of the field "to speak words of comfort to 107 ewes due to lamb in a week." The bombs started to drop all around him. After the raiders passed, he returned to his whitewashed cottage. As he opened the back door, a bomb exploded in his front garden and blasted the roof, walls and windows, but he was unharmed. Fred Mitchell, O.B.E., saved a lot of mutton for Britain...