Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speed Line Chrome. The bucket seat is everywhere; Cadillac's special Eldorado achieves the ultimate in conspicuous consumption of space by putting buckets in the back, thereby sacrificing an extra passenger for the bucket's thronelike comfort. Racing-style stick shifts sprout from car floors, even when they are really only disguised automatic transmission levers. Tachometers stare from dashboards to dazzle the Sunday driver with precious information as to how many revolutions per minute his motor is delivering. And where car nomenclature once connoted carriage-trade-victoria, brougham, landau-the new names and models now smack of high...
...rich cosmopolitan life of the University and the world of the intelligentsia may look askance at the Jew who "chooses" to "segregate" himself. But our virtuous renunciation of Jewishness rests on the availability of a preferred alternative. We are not warranted in judging harshly those who find comfort in a Jewish milieu. The melting pot is an opportunity not a duty. This insistence in nationalistic uniformity is in curious contradiction to our praise of difference and variety...
...government had no objection if a British firm accepted a Soviet deal for pipe that Bonn had just canceled. That only one British company was technically equipped to turn out small amounts of large-diameter pipe-and had not even received a bid from Moscow-was of small comfort to U.S. and West German officials. Nor were they reassured by the fact that Italy, a major supplier of Soviet pipe before the NATO ban, did not immediately grab off part of the lucrative trade; Italian manufacturers simply were backed up at the moment with their own domestic orders...
...years of peddling milk and ice cream, the Borden Co. next month will move into pickles too. When Borden's acquires a Michigan pickle firm called Aunt Jane's Foods, no mouths will pucker in the modest Madison Avenue building from which robust Borden President Harold W. Comfort, 66, bosses an operation stretching from Argentina to Australia. Milk and milk products still account for 73% of Borden's sales, but Borden's has diversified so widely-into everything from applesauce to acetylene, wall coverings to wax beans-that no one is surprised any longer at even...
...make UP 65% of its passengers, have traveled to Europe often enough so that many are now willing to trade speed for luxury. "Airplanes will never replace ocean liners," says President Giuseppe Zuccoli. "The airplane satisfies only a need of time. The ship satisfies no less a need for comfort and relaxation...