Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comfort isn't on Drury's mind as he stands at the crossroads of the career. He has just returned from the World Hockey chamionships in germany (the U.S. finished with a 2-2-2 record; "It went alright," according to Drury), where he played alongside American NHLers that didn't make the playoffs like Tony Amonte of the Rangers and he knows he can compete with the best...
...tricky part about having your dreams come true is making them mean what they were supposed to mean when you dreamed them in the first place. Like many others from the class of '68, I am still working on the original stuff: bearing witness, struggling to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable; trying to find enough to laugh about so that the horror doesn't kill off the hope. I still believe, against all evidence, that things can change for the better. We're working...
While she was living on the streets in Harvard Square, DeLong says she found support and comfort from other homeless people...
...figured in your thoughts, if at all. We cannot stop you from inviting Powell to Harvard, but we must express our strong feeling that his opinions on this issue are without merit, insulting and discriminatory. Given its timing, the Harvard invitation is all too likely to give comfort to those who think it is acceptable to belittle, misrepresent and continue to disenfranchise...
Such omissions do not much comfort pro-choice advocates or those responsible for the approximately 1,500 increasingly beleaguered abortion clinics in the U.S."They've changed their tactics -- more harassment, more stalking, more violence," says Eleanor Smeal, president of the Fund for the Feminist Majority, who last Friday took part in a pro-choice demonstration at a Melbourne church surrounded by about 150 clinic defenders. One statement from a boot camp graduate aptly underscored the persistence of those who took the course. He remarked, "You can draw a lot of comparisons between the fight over abortion and slavery...