Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Apparently Che copied passages from Fyodorov's book as a source of comfort and instruction...
General Decline. As some of Che's other notebooks poignantly show, he needed all the comfort he could get in Bolivia. Che's band, which never numbered more than 51, included 17 Cubans, who held nearly all the command positions. The Cubans were unable to speak the Quechua language of the Indians, who, Che noted, are "as impenetrable as rocks...
Nixon stands face-to-face with his old adversary again. In a way it is somewhat of a comfort to grapple with naked power, to hear the names of men he has known for more than a decade. He has laid all the pieces of this crisis out around him for deeper study. The Soviet cooperation in the later stages he rated better than their actions in previous times of tension. But their initial violations of the cease-fire is another matter. The issue will come up again, the President believes. "It will not be overlooked," he told...
...many shattered windows in nearby buildings are now boarded up that one high administration official ruefully calls the institution "Old Plywood U." Nevertheless, the administrators ironically find comfort in the bombing. They believe that it is the peak of long years of frustration that began with the Dow Chemical demonstrations in 1967. The revulsion it will cause among students and faculty, they think, may help reforge understanding between them...
...personal distance"-an invisible sphere that most animals, as well as man, consider off limits to strangers. The greatest separation corresponds to "public distance": presumably far enough off to discourage personal communication. To Albert and Dabbs, five to six feet seemed just about right, being neither too close for comfort nor so far off as to present only a modest claim on the subject's attention...