Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Comfort from David. It was a singularly deft-even gracious-rejoinder to an implacable if honorably intentioned critic, an illustration of what some observers see as a healthy change in the unpredictable Johnsonian personality. The President has developed a kind of immunity to criticism; though he scarcely enjoys it, it rankles less than it used to and he has come to recognize adverse comment as a natural affliction of his office. Harry Truman, he notes, was a constant target of the critics, yet is now remembered for his wise decisions rather than for the deep freezers accepted by Military Aide...
...added: "That goes double for doing it in time of war and in a fashion that lends support and aid and comfort to our enemies. I don't care whether the American is a misguided Vietnik or chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee." In fact, Goldwater continued, Fulbright's name "lends a phony official stature to his expressions of guilt that his country is militarily powerful enough to defend freedom...
...relationships exist, outside the family or the church, than that of the average person with his doctor. Each year, nearly one billion visits are made to the U.S.'s 225,000 practicing doctors, or about five visits for every American. Each visitor expects not only medical care but comfort, sympathy, relief, reassurance and solace. There was a day when he could be sure of getting all these: the day, not too far past, of the family physician who often knew as much about his patient as he did about an illness. Today, Americans get far better medical care than...
...decorative than the crew cut," she said. As for the fashions, observed Marya, who dresses sedately enough herself: "If it's sometimes hard to tell boys and girls apart in boots and sweaters and pants and hair -well, to some of us they spell a wonderful freedom and comfort and an honest sense of the body...
...stomach for fighting with widows," announced Conservative Polemicist William F. Buckley Jr., 40. He may have played a bit rough with the widow's late husband, Yale Law School Professor Fowler V. Harper, charging four years ago in his National Review that Harper had given "aid and comfort" to Communist causes by lending his name to a Viet Nam protest petition. Harper died last year before his $500,000 libel suit against Buckley was resolved, but his widow pressed on. Finally, Buckley put the matter to rest by settling for $13,750 in New York State Supreme Court, thus...