Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little island in Cambridge, rising with calm through the storm, still could not but hear the raging of the elements outside: Lebanon, Palestine and Italy, where Aldo Moro's bodyguards lay dead, and where Moro himself would, after a series of pathetic letters, pay the Red Brigades' price. No comfort there; the outside looked ugly...
...landscape of their minds was as grotesque as the corpse-littered village they left behind. They had started as seekers after meaning, direction, comfort and love. The Peoples Temple, which provided a number of social services to the poor, had filled their lives with purpose. But in the jungle of Guyana, it had all turned into fear and hatred...
There was no comfort anywhere. Even the usual sterility of raw rock, clear water and open sky was obliterated. Only white pervaded, the white blanketing, falling and unformed snow. It gripped me even more than the cold did. It was even more engulfing than overwhelming. I didn't know whether I wanted to go on, or should go on or even could. It left me a decision...
...cracking. Indeed, he appeared to be spurred on by anger over what he feels was the deception and gross negligence of former friends and officials, like Hoveida, on whom he counted to help build his dream of a modern nation. These men should not languish in comfort and luxury, supporters say, while he lives through the most perilous time of his reign...
...Where has it liberalized them? On the contrary, I think that South Africa is drawing aid and comfort from the West at the moment. I think Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's recent trip to Pretoria, as reported, was a grave setback to black liberation in South Africa. He is reported to have told Pieter Botha, the new Prime Minister, that if South Africa plays ball over Namibia, the U.S. will tone down its criticism of apartheid. If that is so, it means that bargaining for a million Namibians is at the cost of more than 20 million South African...