Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missilery, is to increase by an impressive 15.4%. Furthermore, 30% more will be invested in the key chemical and machine-tool industries next year. While Khrushchev talks grandly of more consumer goods, Kosygin affirmed only a 3% rise in spending on light industry in 1960. Consumers could take comfort in Kosygin's promise of "2,400,000 new, well-appointed apartments" to house 10,000,000 Soviet citizens. The government is making a real effort to catch up on the nation's desperate housing shortage, and though the acres of new mass housing are bleak in design, cramped...
...order of the day." Male homosexuals are pathologically jealous and "unfaithful." Some have relations with more than 100 males a year. Few relationships last more than several weeks; the most common type is the "one-night stand" or the five-minute meeting in a public park or even a comfort station. With contacts so casual, venereal disease runs wild. (One survey showed that almost 10% of male homosexuals are carriers, v. a fraction of 1% of arrested female prostitutes...
...Mother-in-Law Mattresses," sale-priced at $9.95, craftily explained to buyers: "After mother-in-law has gone home because of the mattresses' strange odor of miscured sisal, the handy homemaker can cover the otherwise-perfect 510-coil mattress so that it will give years of odor-free comfort and sound sleep...
...skirmish, and at the battle of Ojos Azules, a remarkably clear and exciting action sequence, he finds four more (Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Richard Conte, Dick York). The colonel then puts Cooper and his heroes in charge of a U.S. citizen (Rita Hayworth) accused of giving aid and comfort (of a suggestively unspecified nature) to the enemy, and orders them north to Cordura, three days' ride across a waterless waste. On the way Cooper tells the men that they will be nominated for the Medal of Honor, and asks them, for personal reasons as well as for Army records...
...Russia can no longer extract favorable terms in bargaining with China, the question is raised: who can? Perhaps the Russians feel that the more people have bombs, the more serious disarmament proposals become--but this is small comfort to the other members of the "nuclear club." And it is only a matter of time before the Soviet Union runs out of concessions which would hinder Soviet expansion southward. Khrushchev has announced that Russia is the greatest power on earth--but China's actions speak louder than words...