Word: comforting
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...furniture. Author David Owen (The Walls Around Us) and his family, of Washington, Conn., "decorated" their funky 1790 farmhouse bathroom with castoffs: a couch, a rocking chair, a bookcase, a table, an old refrigerator used for storage. They even held a cocktail party there. "It's a very comfortable, cozy room," he explains. "When the kids were little and we had company, one of us would have to leave the party for about a half-hour to get them ready for bed. So we took the drinks and moved it all upstairs. We can seat six to eight, including...
...would certainly not be hypocritical to refuse ROTC money while accepting research money, since the research money is allocated without discrimination. But who can blame the military for not taking Harvard seriously if all we are willing to risk for our great moral stand is a few students' financial comfort...
PLEASURES AND TERRORS OF DOMESTIC COMFORT, The Museum of Modern Art, New York City. Forget Angkor Wat and Victoria Falls. This witty show of work by 62 photographers says that home is the most unfamiliar territory of all. Through...
...year-old "Field Marshal" asked his wife Jean to bring him his Bible, and he read in it, as he did every morning, for about 10 minutes. It brought him little comfort. At this moment of crisis, facing a threat that imperiled his life, his command and his whole world, America's greatest living military hero, the bemedaled veteran of bayonet charges through no-man's-land in France, seemed paralyzed. When he did go to his nearby headquarters, he issued no orders to his forces. Officers seeking instructions found themselves barred from his presence...
...Soviets took some -- but not much -- comfort in British and later American operations in North Africa. Until the invasion of Italy in July 1943 and D-day in June 1944, the fighting in Libya, Tunisia and Egypt was the only major military distraction for the Third Reich...