Word: comfortable
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...substantial defense buildup. But he bore the burden of a monstrous deficit for whose solution he offered only the Band-Aid of a balanced-budget amendment. He may frequently have been wrong on his facts, but he spoke to the wordless groping of millions of Americans seeking comfort in the future. Reagan wanted to slow the entire tempo of change speeding Americans to disturbing ends-from encroaching Government and welfare dependency to the drug epidemic and crime in the streets. He saw the future in the lost summertime of the nation's past, when neighborhoods were safe, when families...
Langerman said yesterday they bought the limo because it fits well with their corporate image, and will not depreciate much, although he added comfort was definitely a factor in the decision...
...butter issues, Mondale did not stray much from the oldtime Democratic religion he had learned from Hubert Humphrey. He spoke a sweet and moving message about the values of America. In Cleveland, toward the end of the campaign, he explained his political vision: "We must strengthen, defend, preserve and comfort one another." Mondale paraphrased the words of John Winthrop as he led his flock of Pilgrims to New England...
...COMFORT...
...psychiatrist is uncomprehending, and both sides in the territorial war between Mr. Bunny and McCool's, mobile purveyors of ice cream, keep damaging his car to register displeasure at his peacemaking efforts. In short, it is a fairly typical, that is to say awful, Yuletide season, and Comfort and Joy is a fairly typical, that is to say wonderful, Bill Forsyth comedy. As Gregory's Girl and Local Hero showed, he is a director whose best shots are sidelong glances, a writer whose best lines are murmured asides. In Bill Paterson, who plays Bird, Forsyth has the perfect...