Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thee wed, with my body I thee honour, and all my worldly goods with thee I share." Unlike the American version, the Canadian goes into the purpose of marriage. Said the Rev. Hayes: "Matrimony was ordained ... for the procreation of children ... and for the mutual community, help, and comfort, that the one ought to have of the other, in both prosperity and adversity...
Looking back on the melee at Grand Central, many non-Yipping hippies are wondering if the politics of YIP are not already too controversial for comfort. The Chicago shindig, they fear, could well result in a far larger number of clubbed and lacerated heads. Yippie leaders themselves are in a mood for "better communication with authorities." Last week, promising to behave themselves, some Manhattan Yippies opened talks with the Mayor's office about holding a YIP-out with rock bands and theater troupes in the Sheep Meadow on Easter Sunday...
Last week Roper Research Associates completed a TIME-commissioned poll that gave Johnson 36%, McCarthy 30% and Kennedy 18%. The balance was scattered. The closing days of the contest could well produce different results. But, as of last week, Johnson could take little comfort in the prospects. Though he came out ahead, he trailed his rivals' combined total. On Election Day, it would be a mixed...
Small-Bore Explosion. Many of them were being asked to criticize a profession that had brought them wealth and comfort, and there was strong initial resistance. But as debate developed, they gradually agreed that the law could become irrelevant to today's changing society if changes were not made. Most far-reaching was the contention that "access to legal services must be recognized as a matter of legal right...
...surprisingly declined to endorse Rockefeller after his own withdrawal. Last week at a Lansing, Mich., press conference, he again stood mute. Would George back Nelson if he were to announce formally? "No," said Romney. If he is discouraged by the professionals' skepticism, Rockefeller could at least take comfort from the latest Harris Poll comparing him with Nixon in a race against Johnson and Alabama's George Wallace. In a Nixon-Johnson-Wallace race, Harris showed Nixon 39%, Johnson 39%, Wallace 12%. Substituting Rockefeller for Nixon, the result was Rockefeller 41%, Johnson 34%, Wallace...