Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Comfort, strengthen and keep...
Critics of the State Department's Latin American policy noted impatiently that its "recognize-and-deplore" formula had given little but cold comfort to democrats in Venezuela, Peru and Colombia. Acheson was aware of the criticism, but he applied the formula again, apparently in an effort to show that it can sometimes get results...
...election night in New Zealand, the flat voices of radio announcers reported the people's choice. The broadcasts came from state-owned radio stations; thousands of New Zealanders heard the news in the comfort of state-owned houses, and even the partially deaf listened with hearing aids provided by the state. Many of the welfare state's supporters and beneficiaries could hardly believe their ears: after 14 years of Socialist government, New Zealand had had enough...
...small son (Enzo Staiola) spend a grey Sunday scouring Rome for the stolen bicycle that is necessary to the father's bill-posting job. Their thief-chasing Odyssey takes them through various institutions (soup kitchen, church, bordello, political meeting, fortuneteller's), supposed to inspire or comfort the miserable. After being treated as a bumbling nuisance at each of these havens, the hero tries unsuccessfully to steal a bicycle, and then tearfully walks home to a hopeless existence...
...shelter. Not everyone has employment. But taking the country as a whole and taking the rest of the world as a whole, the percentage of Americans who are suffering real deprivation is small indeed as compared with other peoples, and the percentage of those who are living in comfort, who enjoy the possessions of such luxuries as automobiles and radios, is far, far beyond that ever seen or heard of elsewhere. We are doing well, but we feel, and rightly so, that we are not doing well enough...