Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scholarships (100, compared with 19 by the Chinese), building and equipping a 200-bed hospital in Djakarta. In Cambodia and Burma, the Chinese Communists are ahead, capitalizing on their racial similarities and on large colonies of local Chinese. While Russian diplomats and technicians try to live in American-style comfort, Peking's agents sleep 40 in a barracks, eat native food. Avoiding the Soviets' impractical showcase gifts (example: an outlandish hotel on the outskirts of Rangoon), the Red Chinese have promised to build the Burmese a mill to make paper from bamboo, erected small textile and plywood plants...
...used to doing homework." But the teachers of Midtown's children like the school fine. Exulted Teacher John Moran: "You know what I did yesterday? Peeled apples!" Walter Merlino advertises his own case as a cheering example. "They might not want to be organization men." he said, finding comfort for his students. "They may end up as teachers in a private school...
...their evening shoes (concealed in paper bags) around with them until dinner and high-heel time. Says Designer David Evins, a pioneer of the walking shoe: "Women want to get away from the 4-in. needle heel. It has an artificial look. Today there is a feeling of desiring comfort and ease in a shoe...
...point then is that a war must be avoided altogether and that psychological comfort should not be sought in the consolation that nuclear weapons will end up being show-pieces, since it is conventional warfare that will be fought. It is time, therefore, that we leave the world of self-consoling and gratifying thoughts that provide us with illusory visions, and enter into the realm of pragmatic and realistic thinking. The latter is, perhaps, less comforting, but it will at least leave us without any illusions as to our predicament. Ezra N. Suleiman...
...Elvis Presley, but onstage his style consciously avoids imitation of the master. Planting his mitey (5 ft. 4 in., 135 lbs.) frame firmly on the boards, he neither rocks nor rolls, and his pelvis is so steady that it could house a seismograph. "I go out there to comfort the people," he says. His ministrations are weakest when he is doing old standards like Stardust or his gasping version of Hello Voting Lovers. But his fans are really there to hear Anka sing Anka, and he always scores with Diana, You Are My, Destiny, Put Your Head on My Shoulder...