Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...official system, Conelrad (for Control of Electromagnetic Radiation), was set up to foil them. Under Conelrad regulations, all regular broadcasting would go silent during an attack, while stations going on and off the air on two special frequencies, 640 and 1240 kc., would stand ready to give instructions and comfort to the quaking population...
...future Europe not only excludes U.S. influence but presupposes that the U.S. would not make good its promises to help defend the Continent: "Those who would doubt our pledge, those who would separate Europe from America or split one ally from another, would only give aid and comfort to the men who make themselves our adversaries and welcome any Western disarray. It is not in our interest to try to dominate European councils of decision. . . I repeat again, so that there may be no misunderstanding: the choice of paths to the unity of Europe is a choice which Europe must...
...vocab-ary. People may smile when he sits town to play, but the trouble with his misic is less the fault of the composer than the carpenter: imperfections in his instruments slur the microtonic scheming-and all his years spent with little ore than Chinese proverbs to comfort him are lost and drowned in a chorus of whangs...
...revenge when Mollendruz' father comes to see his son's grave. But his revenge goes sour. He learns that Otto was not killed by the enemy but by the Nazis, for plotting against the regime. Utterly broken, Messkirch can only stammer a few words of bogus comfort to the Frenchman, his enemy. "I had forgotten the skepticism of which I was so proud," he concludes. "I had abandoned myself to darkness, and darkness ruled over...
There is perhaps a measure of comfort in the notion that the disease of faith may after all turn out to be incurable. But it is a far less positive hope of heaven even than that of earlier Greene characters, who often tried to see in their own aridity and torment a sign of God's pursuing love...