Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...restless postwar generation, life in West Berlin was a succession of binges. Ever since he refused to return to his Communist homeland (TIME, Oct. 20), he had been lionized in Berlin's literary salons. His blond good looks and his unpredictable James Dean moods made girls eager to comfort him. In a surge of euphoria, Hlasko would cry: "Writing is a wonderful occupation, almost as good as drinking!" Or, cryptically: "I can't dream about immortal fireflies, but I can fight for human freedom." Then depression would set in, and he would groan: "The devil...
What will the new small cars be like? They will not be scaled-down or stripped-down versions of Chevies, Fords or Plymouths. They will be completely redesigned automobiles, offering almost the same comfort, convenience and even luxuries as present U.S. cars. While all the designing and other work on the new cars has been done in the deepest secrecy, details have been leaked out by tool-and diemakers and other suppliers. With this help, plus sneak shots of a Chevy model on the proving grounds, Motor Life, the auto trade magazine (TIME, Oct. 21, 1957), has put together...
Still puffing hard on the trail of whatever it is that makes heavy smokers the commonest victims of lung cancer, the pioneer researchers in the field have brought out another cold-comfort report: the tar from pipes and cigars is as potent a cancer-causing agent to mice as that from cigarettes. The investigators were Dr. Ernest L. Wynder of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute and Adele B. Croninger of St. Louis' Washington University. As co-author they loyally listed their former chief, the late great Surgeon Evarts A. Graham, onetime chain smoker who died of inoperable lung...
...life having something like this on my conscience. I would be betraying my entire profession if I revealed my source." Why did not the CBS spokesman come forward now and give her the right to reveal his name? Said she: "The guy could lose his job." There was some comfort for her in the approving messages and gifts from well-wishers all over the U.S., including TV Comic Jackie Gleason's chocolate cake with a steel file jutting candlelike from the frosting...
...Venice, Calif. His dining room (background] is furnished with his prize-winning 1944 chair. And, his black leather chair near by frankly owes a great deal to the Victorian functionalist, William Morris. The leather cushions have built-in wrinkles, Eames concedes, "but that is a clue that spells comfort to come, like a well-used first-baseman's mitt...