Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although he and his wife Estelle, 67, live in relative comfort on their $900-a-month income of pension plus Social Security, he no longer is eligible for benefits he had in his old job, such as housing and car allowances and health insurance. He sees rising property taxes as a constant menace to old people trying to cling to the comfort-and memories -of their homes. Goodwin pays $1,500 taxes a year on his house and half-acre lot, which he bought 17 years ago for $22,500. "The city is spending thousands of dollars on conservation lands...
There must have been moments when I felt the sorrows of a motherless child, but what I most remember from my youngest days was an abiding sense of comfort and security. I got plenty of mothering, not only from Pop and my brothers and sister when they were home, but from the whole of our close-knit community...if I were to try to put down the names of all the folks who helped to raise me, it would read like a roster of Negro Princeton... Hard-working people, and poor, most of them, in worldly goods--but how rich...
...throes of alcoholism. Middle-aged and impotent, this pathetic millionaire launches into a self-pitying tirade that evokes memories of Richard Burton at his worst. He has clearly bought his wife with his fortune, and the arrival of Schneider's new friend has given Steiger little cause for comfort. Schneider's looks make her suitable for the role of an unfaithful spouse; blonde, slender and very cool, she has infidelity stamped all over her Nordic features. Her chance encounter with the kite-flyer--who is a struggling writer living near Steiger and Schneider on the southern coast of France--soon...
...direction and a book is something to kill time?for those who like it dead. Too far in the other direction and a novel becomes pretension in a dust jacket. The author of The Honourable Schoolboy manages to skirt both terminals. But even he comes too close for comfort. Can the spy novel continue to grow without losing its value as entertainment? For David Cornwell?John le Carré?George Smiley, it is, in every sense of the word, a vital question for British intelligence.?Stefan Kanfer
Still, the plane's British and French makers can take some comfort from having prevailed in the international contretemps. The Concorde could not meet the standards of a 1969 U.S. federal regulation that set maximum noise levels for jets. But the clamor to permit the Concorde into the U.S. was so great that William Coleman, the Ford Administration's Transportation Secretary, decided in 1975 to give the aircraft a 16-month test at Washington's Dulles and New York's John F. Kennedy International airports. Local suits blocked the test at J.F.K., but 100-seat Concordes...