Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brown's latest indiscretion sparked more outcries for his resignation, but he could at least take comfort in the fact that the Sunday Times was, more or less, stopping. Last Sunday it scarcely mentioned Philby, instead it published the memoirs of that uncontroversial and undeniably loyal Englishman, Sir Francis Chichester...
...church, says Rexford Blazer, 60, chairman of Ashland Oil & Refining Co., is convenient as well as a comfort. His company's seven-story headquarters in the eastern Kentucky hill town of Ashland is directly across the street from Calvary Episcopal Church. On Sunday mornings, while other businessmen are still abed, Blazer works until church time, returns to his desk after services to work until dinnertime...
...those of us who truly oppose the war, the innuendos, lies, distortions and violence of the Far Left loom only as an aid and comfort to the present politico-military regime in Washington. Richard M. Biederman...
...From its top height of 87 in., it can hunker down on its tracks 19 in. to become a less inviting target; it can independently move its front, back or either of its sides to maneuver or to level itself on broken terrain. Its crew sits in air-conditioned comfort beneath a perch with 360° vision. It is at least two years from becoming operational, and it is clearly meant for a different kind of war than Viet Nam: it can withstand contamination from atomic, bacteriological or chemical warfare. Though military men made no mention of it, the tank...
Perhaps a call back to Mom in the New York City Borough of Queens, "where I had defenses," might help.' Cold comfort there. "Is that why you called, Harold?" bleats his Yiddisha Mama. "You thought your mother needed a little filth thrown in her face all the way from France?" More cheer is shed by a sexy sylph in a mauve postage-stamp bikini. Miss Janus, delectably played by Brenda Smiley, has a Proust-like remembrance of flings past and an impish vein of insecurity: "I wish I could get to the state where I truly believed my behind...