Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...symbolic, inarticulate. What message was delivered in the Coliseum? At the ceremonies, Chief Organizer Peter Ueberroth answered "world peace and understanding," but that was merely a wishful guess. Our reaction is emotional, thus mysterious. All one really knows is the feeling of familiarity the ceremonies engender, the strange, abiding comfort that comes from recognizing that one has been pleased by these events before, and will most likely be again, in another time, in no particular time...
...increasing the sport's popularity. "It's a better spectator sport in some ways than traditional motocross," says Michael A. DiPrete, promoter of Saturday's race in Foxboro. "From the spectators' perspective, it's a great show because they can enjoy the racing from the comfort of their seats...
...force, a varsity diver and gymnast who played recreation-league softball, ran track, waved pom-poms and wished she could do more. Carl attempted hail-fellow sports like baseball, but as a coach of that period remembers, "he was always picking daisies in centerfield." For Lewis, track became a comfort station, a self-sufficient arena where the contestants are allowed to be withdrawn. "I was never a fighter when I was young," he says. "I was shy, so I always found another way of getting around a tough situation. I stayed calm...
With U.S.-Soviet relations close to rockbottom, the rare COMECON meeting represented Moscow's urgent summons for present and future solidarity from its allies. The motherland needed friends and comfort...
...mind being present. Mitterrand shrugged off the hint, and Kohl swallowed the rejection. Said Kohl last week: "The German Chancellor has no reason to celebrate when others celebrate a victory in battle that cost 10,000 German soldiers their lives." Neither Bonn nor the West German public took much comfort from a French compromise whereby, on June 8, French and German officials honored German soldiers killed during the first 24 hours of the landing...