Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three East African states of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have one thing in common: they are all giving aid and comfort to the Communist-inspired rebel armies of Christophe Gbenye in the neighboring Congo. Since the U.S. backs the legitimate Congo government of Moise Tshombe, who is a bête noire in the eyes of the black nationalists. East Africa was once again celebrating anti-American week...
...like a muscle-bound giant being besieged by gnats," wrote the Milwaukee Journal. "Where do we go from here? A negotiated peace is vital." The Christian Science Monitor managed to find some comfort in the Viet Cong raids and called U.S. retaliation "an escalation of diplomacy rather than an escalation of the war itself. It cannot be ruled out that these raids, demonstrating American firmness, may well speed the day when a diplomatic settlement of the Vietnamese civil strife will occur...
...film states its entire problem and much of its plot in one awesome metaphor: a young woman in green (Monica Vitti) stands staring desolately across acres of black sludge. Obviously in a state of shock, she has recently attempted suicide following a minor auto accident. But there is no comfort to be had, for here within walking distance of Dante's tomb sprawls a 20th century Inferno. Above her, towering smokestacks throw flame into the sky, while the pipelines of industrial Ravenna belch steam onto the wasted earth...
...WORLD OF JOSEPHUS, by G. A. Williamson. The enigmatic life and times of the renegade Pharisee who went over to the Romans while they were conquering the Jews, then spent the full measure of his years in comfort, writing his own apologia and the only substantive account of two momentous centuries of Jewish history...
Parietal Rules are the necessary laws governing college residence. But the Harvard man has applied his own meaning. A time for relaxing his pent-up sexual emotions in the comfort of his college abode...