Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maginot Hilton." Marveling at the spacious conference room, Kwame's official weekly Spark was awestruck. "It is in this room that the fate of Africa is to be decided," it said. "It is here that Africa, mourning for her enslaved children still under oppression, will look for comfort...
...Northern liberal lawyer in the cool 4:30 comfort of his Madison Avenue bar says, 'Why don't you stay there and fight?' Then that same lawyer will send his Southern business to a firm all of whose partners are racists, and, rationalize it by saying: 'We want a firm that will...
Most of the demonstrators' arguments should certainly comfort Peking and Hanoi. At Detroit's Wayne University, Al Harrison, a young Negro "organizer," cried: "You all got me and my kind in chains! We got no business fighting a yellow man's war to save the white man." Wayne History Professor Norman Pollack-predictably, his specialty is the 19th century-argued that "pockets of profits" kept the U.S. in the war. "If there were no Viet Nam," said he, "the American Government would have to invent...
...Mood to Pare. Since buyers in todays affluent market are willing to pay more for comfort, convenience and gimmickry, the builders themselves absorb only part of the costs of the extras. In any case, they are in no mood to pare prices: they expect demand to increase next year, when the new Housing Act will enable veterans to get longer and lower-cost mortgage loans and will provide easier federal financing for higher-priced homes and raw land In addition, the number of Americans who will marry and enter the housing market will jump this year from...
...considered converting nine suites and putting one extra student in each," Chalmers said. But after talking it over with the House Committee and resident tutors, we decided that the inconvenience of not having a guest suite would be more than compensated for by the greater comfort of the twelve or so undergraduates who would have been crowded if we had put the three extra students in regular suites," he added...