Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stop meddling in Argentine politics or get out of Spain, those close to Perón felt that pride would force the aging exile to seek asylum elsewhere. But life is good at Perón's opulent villa in Madrid, and for the moment at least comfort overcame pride. Last week Perón surrendered to Franco's terms, solemnly promising to abstain from all political skulduggery "while I remain in this country...
...General Nicholas Katzenbach dictated the oath to a secretary aboard the plane. Dallas Judge Sarah Hughes, who was to administer the oath, arrived, and Lyndon recalled: "A few minutes later Mrs. Kennedy and the President's coffin arrived. Mrs. Johnson and I spoke to her. We tried to comfort her, but our words seemed inadequate. About a half-hour later, I asked someone to find out if Mrs. Kennedy would stand with us during the administration of the oath. Mrs. Johnson went back to be with her. Mrs. Kennedy came and stood with us during the moments that...
...rough count (which is the way McComb counts such things), during the past year at least 13 Negro homes, churches or business places have been bombed, another half-dozen burned. Local cops have harassed more than they have helped, and the courts have offered little comfort. When nine whites were arrested and pleaded guilty or nolo contendere (no contest) in the bombing of Negro homes-a charge that carries a maximum penalty of death-County Judge W. H. Watkins freed them all with suspended sentences. As Watkins explained, they had been "unduly provoked" by civil rights workers, some of whom...
Probably the only patients who must necessarily be deprived of the comfort of kinfolk are the growing numbers who are sent after surgery to ultramodern recovery rooms from which visitors are barred because of the danger of infection. In most cases, the presence of the family is a good thing. Even if the patient does not know his relatives are there, it is good for them to have the opportunity to learn to accept the imminent loss of a loved one. But relatives may need to be coached in deathside manners. If they have not already faced their own emotional...
...intensifying the problem of facing death, says the Rev. Joseph T. Alves, head of Boston's Roman Catholic Family Counseling, Inc. A social psychologist, Father Alves is directing a project for training "social volunteers" to help the lonely aged adjust to modern society's pressures and to comfort those who are incurably ill. There is wide public misunderstanding, said Father Alves, of the full purpose of the Roman Catholic "sacrament of the sick." Long called "extreme unction," it is still too generally regarded as simply the last anointing before death. But in modern theology a broader and more...