Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have called for reduction of U.S. troop commitments in Europe, none have seriously suggested that NATO or any other U.S. military alliance be dismantled. Less than three months ago, Senator J. William Fulbright accused Defense Secretary Melvin Laird of using a "technique of fear." Fulbright has given aid and comfort to neo-isolationists at various times, but he does not advocate unilateral disarmament or the breakup of U.S. alliances. The dominant new mood in Congress is one of sober questioning, and Nixon's intemperate remarks hit the wrong note...
...have we made the choice we have? Again, there's really no telling. But it just might be that we have discovered that the civilization we have built to shield us from pain and uncertainty, to protect, preserve--yea enshrine--our comfort, has really done little more than steadily isolate us from the natural order that, as organic beings, we were once so much a part of. We are trying to recover what our apeman forbears had, even though it was interwoven with terror and ignorance, a feeling of belonging, a sense of unity with...
Anyone who has tried to find a proper nursing home for an aged relative has suffered a special agony. Homes that offer merely adequate care and comfort are hard to find, and the demand for places in them is rising steadily. For one thing, the 65-and-over population, which is already approaching 20 million, is growing by 1.7% a year, compared with 1.3% for the total population. Government programs also subsidize the convalescence of the ailing aged. For an oldster who has been in a hospital at least three days, Medicare will pay nearly all costs for 100 days...
...President F. C. Wiser says: "We are happy being happy." He has little else to take comfort in. Earnings dropped 47% last year as airport delays mounted, labor costs soared and the line added more planes than it could profitably fill. For the first four months of 1969, TWA suffered a deficit of $17 million. Its executives could obviously use a Happiness Campaign themselves...
...Psychical and Spiritual Studies, whose patrons include 20 bishops of the Anglican Communion. One of the fellowship's basic concerns is with what it considers a "highly agnostic" trend: the diminution of belief in the traditional Christian doctrine of life after death. Not only does such skepticism deny comfort to the kin of the dead, says the fellowship, but it raises profound questions about "what the raison d'etre of the church can really...