Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distinctively American style has emerged only in the past few years. Its spirit is free and frisky, its emphasis on casual comfort. Rejecting the rigid formalism of European haute couture, American designers rediscovered the body. They started making versatile, flexible attire that can carry a woman through the day and past the evening. The ready-to-wear lines are virtually ageless and classless, and are within the reach of most women. A trendy suit from a top designer can cost less than $200; T shirts, from $10 to $20; an eye-catching swimsuit goes for $25 to $60. Women...
...Ginger Man, though essentially comic in tone, possesses a real undercurrent of melancholy, a curious gaelic sentimentality, which always qualifies the humor Dangerfield's existence is stifled; all he wants is "ease and comfort and quiet," but that is denied him throughout his rakish wanderings and loveless manipulations of others. As he becomes more and more desirous of this unfettered contentment, he is increasingly desperate and pressed to make ends meet. Ultimately he begins to see the folly and waste of this pursuit, and is saved from financial desperation by the improbable intercession of a wealthy friend...
...Rhodesia now finds itself completely surrounded by hostile African governments (Tanzania, Zambia and Botswana all supported Mozambique's action), it will get no comfort from Britain. Prime Minister Harold Wilson's government not only applauded Mozambique's imposition of sanctions against Rhodesia but also approved up to $30 million in emergency humanitarian aid to help the hard-pressed Mozambique economy survive the loss of crucial rail revenues from Rhodesia...
WHEN GEORGE WALLACE ran against Albert Brewer for governor of Alabama in 1970, no one expected he'd have to use a meat cleaver to win. But there is no Marquis of Queensbury in Southern politics, Brewer got a little too close for comfort, and pretty soon Alabama voters were being handed pamphlets with doctored photographs of Brewer in between Elijah Muhammad and Muhammad Ali. Pretty soon word went around that Albert Brewer's two daughters were pregnant with black babies. Pretty soon Albert Brewer was back practicing law in Montogomery...
...Blake gave the Crimson a 5-2 advantage and clinched the title. And, seeing as how Jeff Wiegand (a four-game loser) and Mark Panarese were splitting the final matches, a loss by Blake would have made matters a bit too close for comfort...