Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York has always had its detractors, and out-of-towners often find odd comfort and perverse joy in discussing its faults and inconveniences. But many people who once loved the city are now regretfully finding their passion growing cold. "There's a morale factor that's missing," says Marion Javits, wife of the New York Senator, "that magic and loveliness I used to adore. More than ever, the people are not lovely, or gentle, or likely to say 'excuse me.' It's as though New York no longer feels loved." While New Yorkers may feel...
They are only meant to terrify & comfort...
...TIME'S contacts with the demanding variety of talent and temperament nurtured by our cover artists are the responsibility of Researcher Rosemary Frank. In four years on the job, Rosemary has become a remarkably efficient travel agent, capable of shipping an artist off on assignment in style and comfort. She keeps track of them on their travels, serves as assistant customs broker when they return from abroad, translates their imaginative notes into reasonable expense accounts. In between times, she keeps busy collecting the photographs that some artists work from, finding background symbols (the insignia for Soviet Admiral Gorshkov...
...hard Detroit fans took small comfort in a significant statistic: in 40 of Detroit's 103 regular-season victories, the Tigers were either tied or behind as the seventh inning began, then clawed ahead on a fortuitous clutch hit or an opponent's ill-timed error. There was still a long chance that they could turn the same sort of trick...
...RECONCILING oneself to a certain low level of comfort one is freed from the urge to participate in the system. The only thing that keeps a person grinding away at an unfulfilling 9-to-5 job, dressed neatly in suit and tie, hair cut short to acceptable levels, is the lure of personal advancement with its accompanying psychic and material benefits...