Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course he appears to advocate would increase the risk of thermonuclear disaster. It would give credibility and comfort to the most extreme and most dangerous elements in Communist movements around the globe. It would alienate from our side many sincere and devoted non-Communists. And, misreading the nature of the Sino-Soviet rift, it would spell an end to the hopeful but precarious growth of diversity in the Soviet bloc," the advertisement charged...
...life was once hard and impoverished. That penchant for shoulder-slapping and small talk reflect the Babbitt-like boosterism which brought him business success during the Depression. That briskly polite, nearly oriental, bow which introduces each handshake reminds one that Volpe's recent years have been graced with comfort and prestige...
...which are linked more often to beer guzzlers than to milk sippers, will be supervised by a new top man. In a shift long expected at Borden's, Executive Vice President Francis R. Elliott, 61, last week stepped up to become president and chief executive, replacing Harold W. Comfort, Borden's chief since 1956, who is retiring at 67. Elliott joined the nation's fifth largest food firm 35 years ago as a junior lawyer, soon shifted to the milk and ice cream division, which still accounts for about 60% of Borden's $1.12 billion...
...among other things: 1) a series of 14 Manhattan subway stations, describing a cruciform route, compulsively traveled one night by a homosexual voyeur who is fleeing from a grafting vice-squad detective; 2) the 14 Stations of the Cross; 3) the nightly rounds of a nurse; 4) the comfort stations at the subway stops. Every step of the book is dense in meanings and associations, helped on by rhymes, incantatory metrical effects, and puns that ring with a wild echolalia. The result is a fierce compression that largely explains the book's partial success...
Total cost of the new annex will be "in excess of $2 million," according to John G. Morrill, general manager of the Coop. Morrill said night that "the need for more room is obvious" and that in the present annex there is "no comfort, no service" and only" terrifically crowded conditions...