Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Small Comfort. The intramural murder reflects last summer's breakdown of the much-vaunted Arab cooperation, and the apparent decision of Egypt's President Nasser and Syria's Premier Youssef Zayyen to back a kind of confrontation with the conservative Arab kingdoms of Saudi Arabia's King Feisal and Jordan's Hussein. It also reflects a jockeying for power among rival Arab groups in such places as South Arabia, which will soon get its independence from Britain. The violence is being fueled by a sudden proliferation of terrorist organizations that seem as ready to fire...
...something goes wrong." From the moment that a Navy plane deposited them on a lifeless plateau 20 miles from the base of the Vinson Massif, the climbers' only lifeline to the outside world was an emergency radio hookup with McMurdo Sound, 1,300 miles away. Their sole comfort was that nobody needed to be afraid of the dark. In December, the sun shines 24 hours...
...doesn't, touring virtuosos take comfort in the fact that there is a "violin doctor" in many major cities on the concert circuit ready to make repairs. Sometimes though, it is the violinists who need help. "They're all the same," sighs Max Moller, the resident string doctor in Amsterdam, who is forever dashing off to the concert hall on emergency calls. "I usually discover there is nothing wrong," he says, "except with the artists' nerves. I tell them that their violin is fine and then they are happy." So, ultimately, are the audiences, for as Violinist...
Cocktail Training. The Point is still no paradise, but its new concern for student comfort has led some cadets to dub the place, in jest, "Hilton on the Hudson." In the new dorms, spring mattresses have replaced stuffed cotton bedding, and bureaus have pushed out steel lockers. Morning coffee is served between classes, and some instructors even invite cadets to their quarters for evening pizza and beer. Even plebes can date and dance on the post every fall weekend. Seniors can sip cocktails in the officers' club, a privilege that the Army rationalizes as "the social training...
Girls, meanwhile, are quietly nudged toward conformity and passiveness. They are permitted to cry and seek comfort, become more sensitive to human relationships. While male aggressiveness fosters analytical thinking, problem solving and scientific pursuits, female sensitivity, on the other hand, spurs artistic expression and an edge in music and literature...