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Word: comforts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Erika went to the police and charged Helga with pimping, but the case was dismissed because the German penal code recognizes only men as procurers. That legal bias will be corrected some time next fall, when a new law will make pimping by either sex a criminal offense. Small comfort for Erika, however. Her once beloved Helga has already used Erika's earnings to open an antique shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: The Liberated Pimp | 7/23/1973 | See Source »

...Matlock Paper, Ludlum (4) 6-Facing the Lions, Wicker 7 -The Odessa File,' Forsyth (8) 8 -The Summer Before the Dark, Lessing (9) 9-Sleeping Beauty, Macdonald (5) 10-The World of Apples, Cheever (10); NONFICTION 1-Laughing All the Way, Howar (3) 2 -The Joy of Sex, Comfort (2) 3-Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution, Atkins (1) 4-Sybil, Schreiber(5) 5-Serpico, Maas (4) 6-I'm O.K., You're O.K., Horn's (6) 7-My Young Years, Rubinstein (8) 8-Weight Watchers Program Cookbook, Nidetch (9) 9-The Implosion Conspiracy, Nizer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best Sellers | 7/9/1973 | See Source »

...still dealing in hot guns, supplying them to a mob specializing in branch bank heists around Boston. Simultaneously, he is trying to beat a bootlegging rap by doing some minimal informing-a thief's honor warring with a middle-aged man's need to put his comfort and his family's needs first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Friends of Friends | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

There is also another, more comfort-conscious breed of camper who disdains any real communing with nature. These refugees from city and suburb seek not spartan solitude but gregarious luxury-at reasonable prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Roughing It the Easy Way | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

...rich society to accomplish her goals. The Jo of Little Women is a strong woman. She is so strong, in fact, that she almost eclipses her gentle German husband; when she grows up and runs the school, it is to her that the children come for advice and comfort...

Author: By Amanda Bennett, | Title: Young Women, Little Women, Liberated Women | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

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