Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Still clutched in Michael's hand was the change that a baker had given him a few minutes earlier; he had just picked out a cake for the party to celebrate his first communion the next day. As the priest, a nurse and a passer-by knelt to comfort Michael in the few minutes left of his life, Robbins shot five pictures. Generously, he offered two of them to his old friend Bob Wendlinger, 27, a free-lance photographer for the New York Daily Mirror whose own camera had suddenly jammed...
...going, young man?" he asked a scared, blond youth. "Essen, eh? Just came here to visit your parents. Where do they live? American sector, eh? How did you get here?" The youth hesitated. "Illegally, eh?" chuckled Klein. "But you are very glad that you can now go back in comfort on such a good train, aren't you? That's fine. And now a few words from Herr Kreikmeyer, president of the railways...
Cambridge City Councilman Hyman Pill struck his traditional blow for the Man in the Street yesterday. Councilman Pill issued his fifteenth annual appeal that the city manager purchase land near police headquarters for construction of a public comfort station...
...better spent elsewhere. This may very well be so, but there is no real excuse for treating the summer students as poor relations and denying them the regular College facilities. About 1500 undergraduates are expected to attend the summer school, and this number surely justifies some expenditure for their comfort and convenience...
When, at the age of 45, he fell in love with 18-year-old Ellen Ternan (who didn't love him, says Author Pearson, but "placed comfort before chastity"), he had little compunction about booting his wife out of the house, retaining custody of most of the children and giving a thoroughly dishonest version of his behavior to the newspapers. He aroused millions to compassion for "fallen women," but once, hearing a young girl swear obscenely on the street, he had her marched straight off to jail. It was this inability to see life (or himself) in consistent proportions...