Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...begun to move freely about his realm, he has become even more popular with his people than in the old days. His subjects seem to prefer his humanity to his divinity; at baseball games (he recently attended his first-see cut), among workers, wherever he goes, they take inexplicable comfort from his invariable approving remark, "Ah so, ah so." Yet even in their homage of their constitutional monarch the people are confused...
...nine-day period of national mourning was declared, Filipino planes and government troops combed the mountains in search of the slayers. From his hideout, Huk Leader Luis Taruc issued a statement which would scarcely comfort or reassure the bereaved islanders. If, he said, his own investigation revealed "a breach of Hukbalahap iron discipline," punishment of the guilty party would be carried out swiftly...
Most station owners found cold comfort in being told that radio was doing a good job of nursing and fattening its own assassin. The nation's 50 TV stations (mostly supported by radio) lost $15 million in 1948. While it was being suckled by radio, TV was taking a larger & larger share of radio's advertising. Despite the record revenue for the industry as a whole, one out of every four radio stations showed a loss last year. Nearly half of the 340 stations licensed in 1948 failed to break even. Things looked even worse for 1949. Warned...
...will get the same painstaking local promotion as Mom and Dad, and will wear the same trimmings. There will be an intermission for a "world famous lecturer," hawking another $1 pamphlet-"The Prince of Peace." Say the picture's pitchmen: "The film will move the most hardened sinner, comfort the most troubled." Says untroubled Live Wire Kroger Babb: "It's no sin to make a profit...
...prizes for the best letters of advice to Mrs. H. In three days, 3,000 letters from every state and Canada flooded into the Oklahoman's city rooms; the telephones rang constantly with long-distance callers. Four out of ten letter-writers advised Mrs. H. to seek comfort in God; one letter suggested consolation in whisky. Hundreds urged Mrs. H. to invest her money in ventures ranging from a dog-mange remedy to a sure-fire system for playing the horses...