Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...saying, the junior guru from Washington led the last platoon of the Nov. 27 antiwar protest march into Washington's Harrington Hotel. Later they found comfort in a plush $60-a-day suite in the Statler Hilton. In such surroundings, sprawled on couches and carpet, they held the first coeducational "soul session." One young convert, recalling with distaste an abrasive cry from some demonstrators as they marched around the White House-"Hey, hey, L.B.J., how many people did you kill today?"-suggested that the soul protester should take the long-suffering view of Lyndon's problems. Said...
...COUPLE. Scarred from the battlefield of marriage, two husbands try to find peace and comfort in an all-male stronghold. After some sidesplitting domestic misadventures, they decide to go back into the marital fray...
...means all observers agree that the decline of such demanding customs is a bad thing. The old rituals, while a comfort and release for some, could be a burden to others. And grief expressed in private can be more meaningful than the external forms. London Psychiatrist Dr. David Stafford-Clark thinks that the new attitude toward death should be considered in the context of "the way the whole structure of life has changed since World War II, particularly the very different attitude toward the future which has arisen. It is a much more expectant attitude-an uncertain...
...profound division of opinion. English demonstrators broke out signs that said WE WANT JOHNSON CRUCIFIED. From his sickbed, President Johnson expressed "surprise that any one citizen would feel toward his country in a way that is not consistent with national interest." Hsinhua, the Chinese news agency, took deep comfort in the "unprecedentedly gigantic movement against the war of aggression in Viet...
...soft light and air-conditioned comfort of the Sala Santitham (Peace Hall) in Bangkok's United Nations Building, Indians smiled at Pakistanis, Nationalist Chinese hobnobbed with Russians, and Cambodian delegates rubbed shoulders with their recent Thai enemies. The French, as is their growing custom where international cooperation is involved, stayed away-and so, of course, did the Chinese Communists. But 28 nations sent delegates, including a 14-member U.S. team led by Assistant Treasury Secretary Merlyn N. Trued and-remarkably-a high-ranking, five-man delegation from the Soviet Union. All of them came to Bangkok last week...