Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crime to want a car with size, flashy styling, comfort and performance? I don't care to be jammed into a small, uncomfortable, stodgy toy that looks like it was designed by a Black Forest...
...Certain Comfort. When he entered the priesthood 30-odd years ago, Father Rosi joined a missionary order noted for its work among the Papuan Islanders-the Congregation du Sacré-Coeur d'lssoudun. But instead of sending him forth to convert the heathen, his superiors appointed him mathematics professor at the order's Collège de Thoissey, of which he eventually became director...
...conducting a group of young hikers through the Chevreuse Valley when a pretty 17-year-old girl joined the party. "We had a long conversation," Father Rosi remembers. "She seemed lost, and I had the impression that I gave her a certain comfort. She asked to see me again." Six months and many talks later she told him that she was a prostitute. "Then she reformed her life. She is married now, lives in Africa, and is a courageous mother...
...authors, who apparently assume that children are going to stay put in the towns where they are first taught, make another assumption much favored by the educationists-that "learning for learning's sake" is of scant value, and that only "life purposes," i.e., "needs of hunger, physical comfort, the desire for expression and social integration," can properly lead a child to learn. Is the purpose of study to beguile children or to educate future adults? "Why dramatize 'The Three Bears' in Spanish or French? ... In general, such language learning has little immediate social value. Children would derive...
...still hauling passengers and cargo on U.S. airways. At $590,000, Fairchild's new aircraft will carry almost twice the load (40 passengers) at half again the speed (more than 280 m.p.h.) twice the distance (1,700 miles), and accomplish the task in pressurized, air-conditioned comfort. Says Fairchild President Richard S. Boutelle: "Every DC-3 in the air is fair game for us, and we want to replace them...