Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anesthetics that did not entirely eliminate pain; in one case, the usually stoic Freud interrupted his surgeon, Hans Pichler, with the words, "I cannot take any more." In 1926, "a 'typical' year with no major surgical procedures, just the unceasing attempt to achieve a bare minimum of comfort," Schur reports, there were 48 office visits to Pichler, one biopsy, two cauterizations of new lesions, and continual experiments to improve three different prostheses...
Democratic National Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brein's ruling that 1433 delegates and not 1509 would constitute a majority in deciding the California challenge came as a comfort to McGovern forces, except that by yesterday, the whole California question had become a chicken and egg type of problem. The 1433 figure would undoubtedly be challenged by stop-McGovern forces, yet who would vote on what the majority of those eligible to vote was to be? And who was eligible to vote in the preliminary rule voting...
...most Freudian melodramas, Mama is the culprit: lapping, pawing, hugging, and not much comfort to a young Portnoy, seeing outside the Jewish womb, beyond the intellectual, cultural and religious worlds of his parents. Alex wanders like...
...blue denim society has not totally triumphed yet, however-and auto profits are benefiting because it has not. Enough status-conscious buyers remain to boost sales of luxury cars, such as Cadillacs and Imperials, to record levels. Even minicar purchasers, while shunning big-car prestige, are choosing comfort and convenience along with transportation. Although prices of stripped-down minicars cluster around $2,000, the average price of those sold is considerably higher because motorists are selecting fancy options. Roughly 81% of the cars sold today contain power steering; 63% have factory-built air conditioning; 58% come with vinyl tops...
...Mellons or Rockefellers or Kennedys. Is that a proper aim? The philosophical debate is as old as the Republic, and it split the Founding Fathers. James Madison advocated laws that "would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity and raise extreme indigence toward a state of comfort"-a reasonable description of McGovern's goals. Thomas Jefferson argued against perpetuation of wealth, contending among other things that the assurance of a large inheritance "sometimes does injury to the morals of youth by rendering them independent of, and disobedient to, their parents." But Alexander Hamilton contended that inequality of property...