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Word: comforts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...binding her curls tightly in a turban around her head, in a towel steamed for straightening. And she would chatter, and the pink would glow in her face. But then she would stand mum and prudish all night and hate herself in a corner. Afterwards, I'd try to comfort her, doing a stint of complaining myself to cheer her up. She never believed though, that I could hurt, too. She wanted, you see, what she only imagined...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Goodbye to All That, and Good Riddance | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

...almost destined to be part of the top. To reach the top, all you have to do is follow the game plan, roll with the punches, take the path of least resistance. The good life rubs off on every Harvard student, each one gaining a familiarity with comfort. Contempt for this comfort is rare, most are willing to passively accept it, a few even grovel for it. If you do not make any decision about what you want to do, in essence you will have decided to take the easy road and become coopted...

Author: By Andrew P. Corty, | Title: They Will Try to Get You to Sell Out | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

...records-the burning lava flow of energy raising audiences to their feet and into the aisles. But for those who saw her perform even once, it was not easy to forget the gyrating girl in a glowworm mini, all surging emotion boiling up through swirls of curses and Southern Comfort in a Dixie cup. Or the single vivid impression recorded in the mind's eye that, without the scalding voice and tremulous ostrich plume headdress, she was really rather small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Alone with the Blues | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

...suck it? No? You swallow it? I'll swallow it." But at other times: "Those kids who touch drugs are crazy when they can have a drink of Southern Comfort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Alone with the Blues | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

...Facing the Lions, Wicker (3) 5-The Billion Dollar Sure Thing, Erdman (4) 6-Once Is Not Enough, Susann (2) 7 -The Summer Before the Dark, Lessing (8) 8-Law And Order, Uhnak (9) 9-The Odessa File, Forsyth (7) 10-Hazard, Browne NONFICTION 1 -The Joy of Sex, Comfort (1) 2-Sybil, Schreiber (2) 3-Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution, Atkins (3) 4-How to Be Your Own Best Friend, Newman & Berkowitz (5) 5-Marilyn, Mailer (9) 6-The Making of the President 1972, White 7-Laughing All the Way, Howar (7) 8-The Sovereign State of ITT, Sampson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best Sellers | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

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