Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civilian defense units. Duong Van Thuy, chairman of the House Defense Committee, would also like to call up all single girls aged 18 to 25 to serve as hospital aides or armed forces secretaries, where they could, as Thuy put it, use their "soft hands and tender hearts to comfort our boys...
...feel I should not in the slightest encourage a student to face them. The decision to accept the alternatives to induction is a private and lonely one. The individual may have to spend five years of his life in prison or leave the country permanently. He may find little comfort in the thought that a large number of Harvard's Faculty believe he made a noble choice. I should prefer that no student be faced with this decision; events have dictated otherwise. I hope no one will offer encouragement towards defiance who will not then voluntarily insist upon the same...
...churches should be sounding uncertain trumpets, or that Christians should be insecure as to the meaning and direction of their spiritual commitment. Undeniably, one of the most telling events of modern history has been a revolution in the relationship of religion to Western civilization. The churchgoer could once take comfort in the fact that he belonged to what was essentially a Christian society, in which the existence of an omnipotent God was the focus of ultimate meaning. No such security exists today, in a secular-minded culture that suggests the eclipse rather than the presence...
...ripped it off the moment I walked in. " That could have been a moment of pain for "Hotch,"except that the mustache was a phony, held in place by a coating of spirit gum. Undaunted, he has sported his brush on several occasions since. "It's a great comfort when you're feeling low," he says. "It's as restorative as a Bloody Mary when you have a great hangover...
...Mindless, smiling, they carried their booty through the streets- here a woman struggling with a huge arm chair, there a man with several suits over his arm, there another man lugging not one but two television sets the better, no doubt, to watch the later looting in the comfort of his own living room...