Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...last week the Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 4, that the Constitution does not go that far. It prevents Government appeals of actual verdicts, the Justices ruled, but not of sentences. The decision, written by Justice Harry Blackmun, seemed to some experts to cut two ways. While it may comfort hard-liners by giving prosecutors a second chance to obtain a stiff sentence, its primary effect may be to further a movement toward more uniform sentencing that is backed by many liberals...
Says Linguistics Scholar Peter Farb in Word Play: "Something happened in evolution to create Man the Talker." And a talker man remains, with speech his most exalting faculty. Talk is the tool, the toy, the comfort and joy of the human species. The pity is that talkers so often blurt so far beyond the line of what is needed and desired that they have to be listened to with a stiff upper...
...revised student assembly would function as a muted advisor to the University administration--the same role fulfilled by the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life and the Committee on Undergraduate Education since they were constituted a decade ago, when students had too much political conviction for the administration's comfort...
Touring the stricken region by helicopter on Tuesday, Pope John Paul II visited a hospital and stopped in Balvano to comfort the grieving townspeople. "I come as a brother," the Pontiff said in his quiet, Polish-accented Italian, his white garments stained from embracing grimy survivors. "I want to tell you that you are surrounded by compassion on the part of all Christians...
...Moral Majority crusade are absolutely convinced that they are right. Once the fire has seized the convert--once the seed of conviction is planted at a circus-tent revival meeting or through a multi-cassette mail-order course in Christian fundamentalism--it burns, un-flickering, fueled by the comfort of Absolutes. A protecting barrier between the flame and the winds of thought, rationality, diversity, and complication, the Bible is the answer book. Right-wing conservatism--the Way. The Book--the Truth. The flame--the Light. Only one thing missing...