Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...inclusion in the Assembly's agenda called "The Question of Formosa," announced that it would invite the General Assembly to consider and settle "the future of Formosa" and of its nearly 8,000,000 inhabitants. The move was an unmistakable slap at the Nationalists (see box), gave aid & comfort to the Chinese Reds in their effort to get into...
...comfort Reader Gulp to know that an overdose of silver iodide will often result in no rain...
...Wechsler ran the staffer's blast. Korea Post War Correspondent Jimmy Cannon, sometime sports-page columnist and a G.I. in World War II, wrote: "It seemed . . . that the rioters of Union Square had gone far beyond the rights granted them in the Constitution. They were giving aid and comfort to the enemy and they should have been thrown in jail and tried for treason. Don't give me that guff about civil liberties . . . The Daily Worker going on the boost for Russia in this war is just as mixed up with the enemy as Seoul City...
Said the U.S. prosecutor: "Harry Bridges is a dangerous enemy to our society and a threat to our national security. He is a source of comfort to our enemy. He is the enemy." By urging his longshoremen to oppose U.S. action in Korea, Bridges had lost his right to freedom, argued the Government. Bridges was out on $25,000 bail while waiting for an appeals court to rule on his five-year sentence for perjury (TIME, April 17). The Government asked that his bail be revoked and Bridges jailed...
...earliest trials were held once a year in Newgate in a building which dated from 1190. Later, in 1550, when Newgate had become too pest-ridden for the judges' personal comfort, the first of three successive Old Baileys was built next door. The two institutions were to stand side by side, one funneling miserable wretches to the other, for more than 300 years...