Word: snugness
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Leaving the rest of the party snug in the monastery, Dr. Charles Houston of Exeter, N.H. (son of Leader Houston) and Major H. W. Tilman, veteran British mountain climber, hired three Sherpa porters to do the heavy toting and set out for the mountain, which towered abruptly above them. They faced a part of Nepal which is wholly unexplored except by natives...
...world where much is unknowable, Frost takes refuge in what is knowable, matter-of-fact and practical. "It's knowing what to do with things that counts." One of his favorite books is Robinson Crusoe : "I never tire of being shown how the limited can make snug in the limit less." For himself, Frost asks a wall against intrusion of knowledge, or people, a fence "between too much and me." What is beyond those fences, says Frost, is no man's business. It is "the canyon of Ceasing to Question What Doesn't Concern...
...Started It." Over in town, South Amboy's Mayor John Leonard, a short, fat man who likes to wear a baseball player's warmup jacket, was done with his day's work. He was watching Captain Video on his television set, had settled down for a snug evening at home. His plans were quickly changed...
Early this year the Bonn government shoved through a law restoring the old caste system, its provisions guaranteed to keep the snug, smug bureaucrat happy. Samples: civil servants may not be dismissed for incompetence; vacancies need not be made public and opened to competition. The Allied High Commissioners, in vetoing the new law, reminded Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of his promise last November "to liberalize the structure of government and to exclude authoritarianism," insisted that he produce a more democratic civil service...
...down the heavy door of the farmhouse and seized Farmer Merkel. He was beaten and kicked until he signed a paper admitting that he was a "saboteur" and agreed to resign his local offices n the Christian Democratic Party. that night, Merkel and his wife and daughter left their snug farm and, carring only a rucksack apiece, set out on foot for the safety of the West...