Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevertheless, Chichester set sail aboard the $84,000 two-masted yacht, which was rigged as a ketch for ease in handling by one man. Named after the De Havilland plane that Chichester had once piloted around the Pacific, the slender-beamed Gipsy Moth was outfitted for comfort. In his quarters were a galley designed by his wife, a red upholstered chair with a safety belt and a radio transmitter by which to report his weekly progress to two London newspapers...
...last year to about 4,750,000; actually, TV makers could do much better were they not slowed by shortages of tubes, copper and wooden cabinets. Meanwhile, Americans have escalated spending for services by 8.5% this year, partly because of higher prices, but mostly because of greater desire for comfort, convenience and better-quality living. The nation's medical bill is up 11% to $25 billion, and annual spending on TV-radio repairs is $1 billion...
...stamp catalogues when it is available at two-thirds of the list price at a discount or department store? Why cannot the stores give the shopper the choice of either stamps or a discount on her purchases? Or would this be proving the point too emphatically for comfort...
...beached with the wreckage of the realistic novel. A change in intellectual-political fashion, moreover, left his best work tainted by identification with the social-protest or even "proletarian" production of the Red Decade. This offense was compounded by the fact that his later work gave aid and comfort to the right, just as his earlier books had succored the left. The three novels that constitute District of Columbia (1952) have been unfairly dismissed as the rightist tracts of an embittered man. Yet there was no falling-off in the plain power of his prose. His role in the clash...
Chances are that in most cases the games will stay, the boycotts will fade, and prices will drift upward. It may be small comfort to the housewives, but food still costs less in the U.S. than in many other countries: in West German supermarkets, steak goes for $2.25 a lb.: in Britain, string beans now command 60? a lb. Most important, Americans spend only 18% of their after-tax income for food, while Europeans-who have far fewer convenience foods -spend from...