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Word: comfortable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hospitals for those willing to pay. He may also receive as many visitors as he wants; in an N.H.S. ward the limit is two at a time for an hour a day. Many privately insured patients undergo operations at the expense of N.H.S., then convalesce in paid-for comfort in one of its private rooms or at a private hospital or nursing home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Private Alternative | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...LAST weekend, when I boarded a flight for Philadelphia, I was resigned. The new Eastern terminal had greeted me with its spacious empty comfort. The plane was connected to the terminal by an umbilical apparatus and I didn't even feel the runway wind. I would be inside for an hour. I would sleep for awhile and watch the East Coast the rest of the time...

Author: By Richard Bock, | Title: The Aviator Getting There | 12/18/1969 | See Source »

...drop in the Dow-Jones to below 800, which was widely heralded as an important psychological resistance point, did not touch off any heavy selling. Still, brokers drew little comfort from that fact. Some would have preferred a burst of aggressive selling that might have cleaned out the pessimists and set the stage for a price rally-instead of the fairly steady, day-by-day erosion of prices on fairly light trading volume. Prices were weak principally because investors had the feeling that inflation was not being defeated and that the Government would have to continue strangling credit and pursuing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: No Season to Be Jolly | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Mujica-Lainez conveys not only the well-known creative energies of the Renaissance but its less understood anxieties as well. Unmoored from the sureties of medieval order, the leisured man and the artist of the 16th century sought comfort in personal style. Every inch of space had to be embellished. Emptiness and simplicity were troubling reminders of a yawning eternity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long Live the Duke | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...moved from the Gund Hall construction site to occupy the Faculty Dining Club, a place where Harvard Faculty members relax in leisure and comfort and dine-in elegance ignoring the fact that black people are suffering at the hands of Harvard's racist policies," he said...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: 91 OBU Members Leave Building After Injunction | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

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