Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Faye Bennet said that when her husband and she became aware of the illness, they decided to accept its unpleasant nature without trying to escape its implications. "My wife gave me strength, comfort and above all she gave me love," said Bennet...
Appointments to top staff positions have been made. As minority counsel the Republicans chose Albert Jenner, 66, a prominent G.O.P. attorney in Chicago who served as assistant counsel for the Warren Commission investigation of John Kennedy's assassination. He may provide scant partisan comfort to Nixon. In a TV interview, he said that "certainly within some areas the President should be responsible for the actions of aides," even if he did not know what the aide was doing...
...Long Beach transgressions: moving one prospect's family to a home near the college, offering another money and jobs for his relatives, even repairing one candidate's wrecked car. For Long Beach, probation means no postseason competition or any participation in lucrative TV contracts. The only comfort was that the N.C.A.A. did not prohibit all further recruiting...
Jacobs has no problem boosting his product, despite its price (sandals, shoes and boots sell for between $23.50 and $42.50 per pair); buyers constantly tout the comfort of Earth Shoes. "They are about all we wear," says Malibu Housewife Joan Lloyd. "My corkie platforms are now just taking up room in the closet." Frank Palermo, 27, of Rye, N.Y., notes that his Earth Shoes did what four years at the Air Force Academy in Colorado could not do: teach him to stand up straight. The curious, heels-down construction forces the wearer to lean backward more, and thus to tuck...
...fact, during the golden age of American railroading, roughly between 1870 and the late 1930s, passenger trains were both functional and elegant. In other countries railroads still offer an unbeatable combination of comfort, safety and reliability. France's crack expresses, like the Mistral, provide sumptuous meals, barbershops, bookstores, boutiques and business offices, all at speeds of up to 125 m.p.h. Japan's famed "bullet" trains, whooshing along on cushioned roadbeds, treat the passenger with geisha-like solicitude. When the English Channel tunnel is completed, le chemin de fer will whisk travelers from London to Paris...