Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...what comfort is there for the undergraduates, who are the immediate sufferers? Not for years at least will they have the benefit of a detached analysis of the forces that are wracking them. And when it does come, there probably won't be any need for it. Meantime they will suffer in silence, and keep on huddling in cold little groups in the lee of Memorial Hall: "Jeest, I thought at least there'd be some choice. Now what did you say on that third question...
...yelling at the top of my voice that everything was going to be all right. I noticed that when anyone did anything, whether it was lowering a boat or just speaking, they did it with all their force. The one unendurable thing was to do nothing. I derived great comfort from expending energy on this poor woman...
...Many a U. S. Founding Father, more than somewhat suspicious of democracy,† took comfort in upholding the poll tax principle, which neatly eliminated the great unwashed from a voice in naming the people's choice. Time, and the growth of democratic ideas, ate away the poll tax bulwarks-in the U. S. eight States still make a citizen clink cash on the counter before casting a vote...