Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that far down the list is the result of many factors, including a great deal of hard work and sacrifice by New York's police department. Yes, it is small comfort to anyone, because we still have a long way to go. But that is precisely why the fight for public safety continues as the top priority of New York City and most city governments in this country...
...Joseph Alsop is any indication, neither is likely to have much impact on those now addicted to nicotine. Alsop, who is struggling to kick a four-pack-a-day habit, wrote earlier this month that matters requiring calculation, learning and judgment became "inordinately difficult or downright impossible" without the comfort of tobacco. Scores of readers wrote to tell him that they, too, suffered from what Alsop called the "incompetence syndrome," and were unable to do almost everything from working to playing bridge without cigarettes...
Makers claim that they have increased the comfort of the new poromerics by doing without the fabric interlayers used to back the first generation of artificial leathers. Those interlayers made the material thick and stiff. Consumers shod in Du Font's product inspired the wisecrack, "Corfam shoes always look brand new; they always feel brand...
...expectations this year. It began as an uncomfortable nuisance in May, but it gathered strength in June and July and grew unbearably intense in August. Aides were shoved and cursed as tempers flared on the Potomac. High officials, reddening under the sun, became increasingly reluctant to leave the secluded comfort of their airconditioned offices, and recalling the last pleasant weather grew increasingly difficult...
...especially well-done and a lot of fun. It is a memory, perhaps a memoir, of what one goes through on the way to adulthood. If you're one of the freshmen registering today, you're probably wondering if you should ever have come. American Graffiti will comfort you with the knowledge that you are no different than anyone else...