Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small comfort, but light fish and rice dishes are the thing here. However unhappy your hosts may be with U.S. policy, they are not likely to retaliate with anything like those 18-course banquets that the Chinese hurled at your diet in Peking...
...rise in U.S. personal income would lead to a rapid expansion in both business and leisure travel. He also sensed that people on the move would prefer to stay in lodges that offered, in addition to a place to park their car, a standardized level of cleanliness, comfort and food at moderate prices. (In 1971, the average price for a room in a Holiday Inn was $15.06, v. $16.60 for motels nationally and $20.33 for leading hotels...
...through memory and feeling. Its tone is rueful and uncompromising, especially in regard to the way people in this world treat loved ones about to enter the next. "What burdens we lay on the dying," the heroine reflects, "seeking to prove some little thing that we can keep to comfort...
...mother, Becky, had been a spirited girl from West Virginia who named her child for the state flower and journeyed back ev ery summer of her life. But these memories are overwhelmed by images of Becky's slow, painful death and the Judge's powerlessness to comfort...
...Amish-and not mere "secular" disagreement with society's educational goals-that enabled the religious freedom guarantee to override the state's right to set educational standards. It also noted that the Amish sought exemption only from high school, not grade school. The decision will be small comfort to more modern communalists and dropouts who would like to get away from it all and educate their children in their own ways. Even so hallowed an anti-Establishment position as that of Henry David Thoreau, the court noted, was "philosophical and personal rather than religious," and would...