Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Apparently its central intelligence does not even know clearly where its arms are. In other words, while the octopus is still likely to grab hold of anything that comes close, its brain may have only a vague notion about what that anything may be. This may be of small comfort to the victim...
...obscurity of his back-row seat, Old Joe, 75, evens the score in a brooding, bitter memoir, My First Fifty Years in Politics (McGraw-Hill; $4.50), as told to Robert J. Donovan, Washington chief of the New York Herald Tribune. Martin's book gives little aid and comfort to the G.O.P. during election year. Excerpts...
...Andrews, Scotland last week, the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches agreed to submit a new statement of belief to the third General Assembly meeting in New Delhi in November 1961. The new criterion of membership, which the council's 178 churches will probably endorse, will comfort the Greek Orthodox, who are members, and widen the door to the Russian Orthodox, who are moving closer to membership...
Africans may take comfort in the fact that both U.S. presidential candidates have now said as much in their own ways. The Kennedy Foundation is footing the air fares for those East Africans. For his part, Richard Nixon last week called Afro-Asian education "our most critical long-range problem." Said he: "There is no area where the national interest can be served better...
...readers may experience the discomforting shock of self surprised. At first the plumber's grief seems simple-inward weeping set off by a breath of perfume from a bathroom cabinet, or the sudden spaciousness of his bed. Then, wallowing in his sadness, Berman turns on everyone who offers comfort. Even his married daughter, who tries to mother him, is stung by his quick, aimless angers, his sullen preference for the inanities of television instead of the company of friends and family. And though Berman himself is bewildered, he has no words with which to explain, no grace with which...