Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richard Nixon came home from the limited accomplishments of the Moscow summit last week, he found little comfort in the news that awaited...
...Olympus), apparently never lost at any sport. Bowen dreamed of becoming a triple-threat back at Princeton but became a pedestrian first baseman at Amherst, then an editor in New York. Years passed. Sports stars grew younger. Bowen grew older. Came the day when he could no longer take comfort even from the presence on the sporting scene of elderly prizefighters like Archie Moore, or the ageless prowess of Stan Musial...
Americans should take comfort and inspiration from the struggles of their sisters and brothers throughout the world. But most of all, the people of one area taught us what heroism means. For decades the people of Indochina have fought on--against Japan, against France, against the United States--for the right to live quietly in their own land. The American military had billions of dollars, thousands of tons of bombs, the most up-to-date electronic weaponry. The National Liberation Front and North Vietnam had less sophisticated weaponry and less practiced troops, but they also had a reciprocated faith...
...longer the Iowa teen-ager who starred as St. Joan, Jean Seberg, 35, is a film director. Now, she and her third husband, aspiring Director Dennis Berry, 29, live in bourgeois comfort on Paris' Left Bank patronizing young film makers and actors. One of them, Jean-François Ferriol, "feels he is a reincarnation of Billy the Kid," said Jean, who thereupon sat down and wrote a two-reeler called Ballad for the Kid. The script calls for an encounter between Billy, played by Ferriol, and a Hollywood star from the '30s, played by Jean. "When...
...Comfort me with apples," adjured Solomon, not foreseeing the day when they would cost 25? apiece at the supermarket. To put some of the comfort back into apple consumption, two young California entrepreneurs are providing a rent-a-tree service that allows city dwellers to raise all the fruit they can possibly eat and also enjoy the pristine pleasures of watching trees grow, blossom and yield...