Word: comforts
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Spending tax money for presidential retreats is nothing new-nor is it necessarily wrong. It is an ungenerous country that cannot let its President relax in comfort and safety. F.D.R., for instance, had a retreat called Shangri-La built in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains with $15,000 from the White House budget and with thousands of dollars more that were hidden in various departmental budgets. But that was public property and is now better known as Camp David. Other Presidents have had additions made to their private homes. Until the Nixon Administration, those outlays were made by the Defense...
...futile, heartbreaking hope that exists only to be dashed. When Vanya learns that Serebryakov proposes to sell the estate, he goes staggeringly blind with rage and fires two revolver shots at the professor, missing both times-the ultimate, humiliating proof of his ineffectualness. The visitors depart. Sonya tries to comfort herself and Vanya with a vague hope of heaven where "we shall rest...
However they vary in size and construction, they all have important qualities in common. Their rigs and hull designs have made small concessions to the years; they are built for simplicity and safety, for ease of maintenance and sea-kindliness, and the comfort of their crews. Near by, their neighbors wait for an afternoon sail to a convenient cove, a chase around the buoys or an ocean thrash that will strain the speed and strength of modern racing machines. But these are purely cruising boats. Their skippers are cruising men, more concerned with the unchanging requirements of the sea than...
Like all proper cruising vessels, Gazelle gives her crew the basic necessities of privacy and comfort. To enjoy his kind of life, says Colvin, a cruising man needs remarkably little money beyond the cost of his boat. Long passages at sea have taught the Colvins that they can live afloat with their three children - Karen, 16, Kevin, 11, and Kenneth, 9 - on an income of $3,600 a year. A careful yearly budget kept by Jean Colvin shows these expenses...
...Comfort (2) 4-Serpico, Maas...