Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Annenberg's farewell party. He had to cancel out because of the death of his great-uncle, the Duke of Gloucester. Instead, Laura Jo visited Charles privately at Kensington Palace. Her mother professed astonishment: "Surely he must have lots of English girl friends." Chagrined mums round England took comfort from the fact that since Laura Jo is Roman Catholic, Charles is forbidden by law to marry her. Anyway, in an interview Charles gave to the London Observer Charles stuck to his previous statement that he would marry someone more or less of his own rank. "Marriage," he said...
...white world complete with their own coming-out parties and cotillions. They distinguished themselves from the black masses by quitting the Baptist and Methodist churches for the Episcopal, Congregational, Presbyterian or Roman Catholic denominations. Though treated like any other blacks by the white population, they took what comfort they could in their lighter skin. Some Negro colleges even requested photos from applicants to make sure they did not admit too many dark-skinned students...
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...
Christmas and Thanksgiving were celebrated, marriage and funeral rites were performed, and cultural traditions were renewed. But it was a bleak existence for the prisoners, many of whom had previously enjoyed middle-class comfort. Professionals, such as doctors and lawyers, were paid $19 a month for serving fellow inmates; laborers received $12 to do menial work. Some residents took up sewing, flower arranging, making jewelry from sea shells-all to ward off the feeling of confinement. It was hardly a Nazi-style concentration camp, but armed guards and barbed wire were continual reminders of freedom denied...
...Wampeters," by the way, are objects (like the Holy Grail) around which the lives of otherwise unrelated people revolve. "Foma" are "harmless untruths, intended to comfort simple souls,"-such as "prosperity is just around the corner." A "granfalloon" is a "proud and meaningless association of human beings." As members of the Vonnegut granfalloon know, the words first appeared in one of Uncle Kurt's early novels, Cat's Cradle. · John Skow