Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moving in a bubble of molten rock. Pressure on its sides will rise enormously, but Adams is not afraid that it will be crushed; it will have no inner cavities to collapse. He figures it can penetrate about 20 miles before pressure and temperature get too high for its comfort. Then it will automatically start to rise...
...contemptible. He says some garbage about my "callous lack of concern for the plight of the unloved illegitimate child and the unwed mother." These words are entirely out of his own mind or heart. Let me review the dialogue as it occurred. In my presentation, I quoted Alex Comfort's two commandments; "Do not exploit another's feelings, and do not cause an unwanted birth," I cautioned, however, that often middle-class people put off having children, or even compel abortions, for the most trivial or venal reasons, or mere convenience; they out themselves off from big experience. Dr. Blaine...
...laggard 88th Congress nor the problems of the Atlantic Alliance, sparked much interest. Said former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton Minow: "Like most people, I haven't fully comprehended that the President is gone. I think the general mood is very mixed-one of sorrow and of comfort. Luckily, there is no international crisis at the moment." But there was some talk about the health of the economy, the prospects for a tax cut and a civil rights bill-and there was a great deal of speculation about the new President...
...told him: "I'm retiring and leaving Greece-tomorrow." He booked space under a false name on a flight to Paris. Only after Karamanlis and his wife had departed did his National Radical Union get the word. Stunned, they elected a new party chairman and took whatever comfort they could from a letter their leader had left behind: "When a statesman knows what is best for his country but cannot carry it out, he must, instead of compromising with his conscience, retire...
Died. Avery Comfort Adams, 65, chairman from 1958 until last May of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., the nation's fourth largest producer (1962 sales: $790 million), a suave product of Choate and Yale ('20) who served as a top executive in eight other steel companies before taking over as boss of Jones & Laughlin, where he bitterly contested fellow Choate Man John F. Kennedy's 1962 rollback of steel prices, declaring himself an original member of "the S.O.B. Club"; of a heart attack; in Pittsburgh...