Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...higher than 65° F in the winter, and that hot water settings be turned down to 105° F. Should Carter decide to implement the measure this week as planned, workers in some 5 million such buildings would suddenly find themselves deprived of the air-conditioned comfort to which they have become accustomed...
...Harry Byrd to lift the sanctions. South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond caught the mood of the Senate's conservatives when he thundered that the guerrilla movements "are armed and guided by the Soviet Union, China, Cuba and other Communist states. We must not give aid or comfort to guerrillas who would overthrow a democratic government and install a Marxist government...
...there is still tension. Said one Polish Catholic intellectual from Cracow: "You can't talk about persecution, but there is constant harassment." Religion classes remain outside the schools, and, more important, parents are pressured not to send their children. Religious broadcasts are forbidden, even of Masses that could comfort invalids. A notable exception was the four-hour telecast of Figure of crucified Christ in modernistic Nowa Huta church John Paul's installation at the Vatican. National coverage of three of this week's events has been scheduled...
...when they appeared in the flesh. He thrived on it and restlessly roamed the globe as his popularity faded. The rest lessness became sexual and finally caused their divorce in 1936. By then she was 42, and all she really wanted was a chance to enjoy her winnings in comfort. Pickfair was perhaps the most comfortable great house in America, elegant and welcoming. In 1937 she married Buddy Rogers, the band leader and actor who had given her that first screen kiss. Until her final withdrawal into solitude, she occupied herself with various causes, including work for the aged...
John Kenneth Galbraith, economist, at Yale: "I can't ask you to go out and comfort the afflicted; that would be considered eccentric. But perhaps you can afflict the comfortable...