Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would like to point out that rather than choosing pantsuits in a dither of fashion uncertainty, women are more likely choosing them because they surpass skirts in both comfort and versatility...
...throat fills with thorns and she wants to scream. The thorns prick into her life and bleed fire. Why should he comfort her in his lame-ass way? She doesn't even know his name. She mustn't awaken him again, oh no; but it would be better to move, to vanish, than scream, for she has no idea where the scream would take her. So with infinite slowness she begins to wriggle from his embrace. He is unaware...
...there is no one who can comfort...
NONFICTION ¶1-Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution, Atkins (1) ¶2 -The Best and the Brightest, Halberstam (2) ¶3-Harry S. Truman, Truman (4) ¶4-The Joy of Sex, Comfort (3) ¶5-1'm O.K., You're O.K., Harris (5) ¶6-All Creatures Great and Small, Herriot (7) ¶7-' 'Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye, O'Donnell, Powers, McCarthy (8) ¶8-Journey to Ixtlan, Castaneda (6) ¶9-The Implosion Conspiracy, Nizer ¶10-Soldier, Lieut. Colonel Anthony B. Herbert, U.S.A. (ret.) with James T. Wooten...
Pearl Buck, who died last week in Vermont at the age of 80, was well qualified to do just this. She was born Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker in Hillsboro, W. Va., in 1892. But her parents were Presbyterian missionaries, and the family soon went back to China. Her father believed that he had to mingle with the Chinese if he was to influence them toward Christianity; he wore Chinese dress and even grew a queue. Pearl was tutored by a Confucian scholar and spoke Chinese before she spoke English. All her playmates were Chinese, and she realized that she was "different...