Word: comfortability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...absence of anything better from any other candidate, that is comfort enough for Mitchell and, it seems, for millions of other voters. It has been enough to propel the bellicose Buchanan--infamous for a 1992 G.O.P. convention speech that sent a chill down the spine of anyone less inclined to see America in terms of us vs. them--into second place in the polls, just behind Senate majority leader Bob Dole. After a long time of hand-to-mouth electioneering, Buchanan earlier this month also claimed second place in the money race, surpassing the third-quarter fund raising of formidable...
...have not noticed increased security of any kind in my area, and the streets are still very dark. (Bright streetlights are a deterrent to crime.) The advice of the Harvard Police in your article, "not to walk or jog along Memorial Drive or Storrow Drive alone," comes as cold comfort to people who live there. And besides, I live alone--my partner of 15 years has been unable, after three years of looking, to find employment in this state. Nor can I afford a bodyguard to accompany me daily between here and my office at the Semitic Museum...
...close for comfort. French Canadians are having just as visceral a response to their loss as I am to the victory," she said...
...eldest Banks says he sympathizes with the economic fears of many black men. Especially during his child-raising years, he felt that his own comfort could evaporate in a moment. "When you're trying to support a home, a car and children, if you miss two paychecks, then where are you?" he says. David, who gave up law when he saw that New York City's schools needed more black male role models, wanted school kids to see a sea of support in Washington. He observes that nearly every troubled boy in his school does not have a father...
...exhibit-goers tried to suck out of his paintings all they could, often standing before each one for minutes at a time, as if to swallow it whole and take it with them to ward off their fears of being alone. For, strangely, in his bleakrless came a certain comfort; seeing those 59 pictures together with hundreds of people made his solitude communal. And knowing that we were not as lonely as those in his pictures also gave a certain comfort...