Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anyway-got richer still. Ah, but the way he did it. On opening day at the 7,073-yd. Desert Inn Country Club course, his second tee shot strayed from the fairway and conked a spectator on the head. That rattled the spectator. Not Jack. He paused briefly to comfort the injured bystander, drilled an iron to the green and neatly two-putted for a birdie four. He then birdied five of the next twelve holes, bogeyed only once and clomped up to the 15th, a 501 -yd. dogleg left, with six under par on his scorecard. A drive like...
...saint, as James treats him, epitomizes the Jamesian attitude toward religion and the religious life. "Instead of placing happiness where common men place it, in comfort, he places it in a higher kind of inner excitement, which converts discomforts into sources of cheer and annuls unhappiness. So he turns his back upon no duty, however thankless; and when we are in need of assistance, we can count upon the saint lending his hand with more certainty than we can count upon any other person.... Felicity, purity, charity, patience, self-severity--these are splendid excellencies, and the saint...
...king, his one good eye gleaming up from his faceless head. "That is the man-eater!" the dreamer's mother cried out to him in the dream-but did she mean the king or did she mean Jesus? From that night on, the dreamer could never find comfort in Jesus' name. The sound of it flooded him with his frightful revelation: the phallic king of underground terror and the good Lord Jesus were both, somehow, the same...
...task of appealing to a party containing a Barry Goldwater obviously directs his truculence and conservatism toward overcoming this difficulty. Long regarded as the leader of Republican liberalism, Rockefeller is today attempting to comfort, if not actually placate, his more conservative associates. He can now tell them that he is saying the same things as Halleck and Dirksen. If the recent compliments paid him by Senator Goldwater have any meaning, Rockefeller can consider his strategy successful...
...sounds perfectly insufferable. David and Liz are newlyweds and weanling artists. In full flight from the soft clutch of uptown parental comfort, the two make their nest in an industrial loft in lower Manhattan. After a series of predictable experiences-first night, first fight, first child-they are drawn back to the kind of cozy middle-class coop they flew in the first place...