Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...comfort and convenience, the British government would do much better to tear down No. 10 entirely and build something new. No. 10 is far too small for the offices and consultation rooms the modern Prime Minister requires; it has only one accessible door (the back door leads to the garden), and statesmen often have to brush by the butcher's boy delivering the day's meat. But, being British, no one considered it; No. 10 will be rebuilt...
...diesel fuel and battery acid that fouled the air of early submersibles. Into George Washington and Patrick Henry went 300-ton capacity air-conditioning equipment, air scrubbers and precipitants to remove irritants, and oxygen generators to enable the subs to manufacture their own habitable environment. Bunks were designed for comfort, no-lint skivvies procured to keep the air filters clear; wide-screen movie equipment and exercise gear were installed. These Polaris subs were to be no "pig boats" of fragrant Navy memory...
...sharp little men who tell me where Madame is to be booked, what fee she is to be paid, who is to sing with her and what the critics will have to write. Somewhere in the brain of every prima donna there is a deep craving for security and comfort, linked with fear of old age. This causes her to pick a man who is prepared to act as a permanent wet nurse...
Published 500 years ago "as an aid and comfort to women in love," Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron reputedly contains every basic plot ever written. It has provided aid and comfort for novelists, short story writers, dramatists, Hollywood and TV hacks. Now Boccaccio has been set to the dance. At Italy's Nervi Festival, Russian-born Choreographer Leonide Massine last week presented the premiere of his Human Comedy, a three-hour interpretation of nine of Boccaccio's lustiest tales...
...address: ''To many, not just the colleges but the whole Western world has for some time seemed adrift with little sense of purposeful direction, lacking deeply held conviction, wandering along with no more stirring thought in the minds of most men than desire for di version, personal comfort and safety.¶I Poet Richard Armour at Whitman College: "Can you visualize with me brain service stations called Brainatoriums or Braindromats, where attendants (appropriately clad in white jackets) will wipe off your glass cortex and polish the chrome of your cerebellum while pumping in five ounces of grey matter...