Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also could take solid comfort from the fact that Mongi Slim was president of the Assembly. Slim is a man of Western orientation, experienced in Western parliamentary tradition (see box). In the further maneuvering over the succession this week, Slim's presence in the chair means assurance at least that the West will get equitable treatment on the embattled Assembly floor...
...fast pace of population increase. But he refrains from laboring the point, "lest the professional anti-Catholics take too much courage. They regard the Roman church as a monster. It is really a very impressive survival from medievalism, which has managed to apply its ancient wisdom to the comfort of a harassed generation in a nuclear and technical...
...charges was the somewhat odd argument that when the two banks began to talk merger last January, they automatically engaged in restraint of interstate trade. Because the merger was officially, though not actually, in force, Federal Judge John M. Cashin refused Justice its temporary injunction. But this was cold comfort to Manufacturers Hanover Trust, for first thing this week the Justice Department, with Judge Cashin's consent, will be back in court requesting annulment of the merger...
Despite his pain, Mister Sam remained indomitable. After weeks of back twinges, he was finally prevailed upon to consult White House Physician Janet Travell, who administered Novocain to comfort him. When the treatment was over, Rayburn arose to put his trousers back on. Dr. Travell noticed that he was wobbling first on one foot, then on the other. She suggested that he sit down to finish dressing. Cried Sam Rayburn: "I am 79 years old, and no woman is going to tell me how to put on my pants...
...confessed bleatnik [Aug. 11], I was quite amused at Professor Klassen's terming the transistor radio an "appeal to bodily comfort which is related to the desire to go back to the womb, the mother and the breast." Surely he jests...