Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only a few British Laborites found a grain of comfort in what they heard from the U.S. They thought that there was political capital to be made from the crisis, even suggested the possibility of a quick general election this November. Explained one Labor M.P.: "A bit of American stonewalling, and we would go to the country with a dramatic clarion call to rally round retrenchment and reform rather than knuckle under to the dollar...
Jaguar in a Cage. Despite his cattle wealth, Lohman lives like a frontiersman. His ranch house is surrounded by a palm-log stockade, has no running water, no plumbing. Screening for the bedrooms is his one concession to comfort in the mosquito-infested Chaco...
...Dapper, comfort-loving Ray Robinson nas not been a popular champion. He has fought only when he felt like it and has been known to change his mind about a match after the contracts were signed. Moreover, in Harlem, where he owns and operates four businesses (including Sugar Ray's Café), even his friends suspected that the champ had grown soft on easy living. But Sugar Ray, beaten only once in 98 professional fights, proved last week that he still had everything under control...
...This Side Nothing - Alex Comfort...
Alumnus Frank B. Ober, a Maryland lawyer, had written to propose that "practical steps" be taken to eliminate "disloyal teachers." By their extracurricular pronouncements, said Ober, such men as Astronomer Harlow Shapley were giving "aid and comfort to Communism." The university's answer: "Harvard is not afraid of freedom . . . Teachers have rights as citizens to speak and write as men of independence . . . There will be no harassment of professors...