Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another (Gastone Moschin) walks out on his nattering wife to find comfort as generously dispensed by a cafe hostess (Virna Lisi). His friends envy his conquest and join forces with the wife to hound him back to domesticity. Yet, an intruding enemy can unite all men in common cause. When a teen age peasant girl (Patrizia Valturri) is entertained by the husbands in an afternoon of collective amiability, and later hauls them before a judge, they take up a collection to buy her off and rescue the community's honor...
...Power & Comfort. Equipment is generally getting bigger and more powerful, with the average farm tractor now boasting 65 h.p. v. 27 h.p. in 1950. The increased power enables farmers to pull bigger implements, cover broader swaths, move faster across the fields. At the same time, there is more emphasis on comfort. Combines and tractors are now available with roomy, enclosed cabs featuring such luxuries as heaters, air conditioning, radios, tinted glass, cushioned seats-and even automatic transmissions...
...Their conclusion that this image was indeed not valid lent comfort to those who choose to believe the Warren Commission's findings, and at the same time confused many persons into believing that Itek had examined and refuted the validity of the much more compelling human-like images discussed in your June 2 article...
...British can be dissuaded from a headlong retreat. He said that he was "very hopeful that the British would maintain their interest in that part of the world." Secretary of State Rusk publicly regretted Britain's decision, but he warned pointedly that aggressors in Asia "should take no comfort" from the pullout...
Every Christian is expected to gather with others "...to praise God, to hear his Word for mankind, to baptize and to join in the Lord's Supper, to pray for and present the world to him in worship, to enjoy fellowship, to receive instruction, strength, and comfort, to order and organize (the church's) corporate life, to be tested, renewed, and reformed, and to speak and act in the world's affairs as may be appropriate to the needs of the time...