Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that is a large source of comfort for Joe and Joan Bartley...
...Fred Jewett '57, dean of the College, said yesterday that Harvard would do whatever possible to comfort mourners of James P. Houghton '94, a 21-year-old psychology concentrator...
Lizzie Schlesinger-Cohen, 13, an eighth grader who worked at the Windsor Elderly Care Center and spoke yesterday at the ceremony, said that listening to older people and giving them comfort changed her view of the elderly. She said they had turned out to be "a lot more fun" than she had expected...
...WEEK PAMELA BASU WORRIED about how well her 22-month-old daughter Sarina would adjust to her first day at school. Basu told her supervisor she might be late to work that day, but not to fret: she would just need a little extra time to comfort her daughter and ease the separation. When the day arrived, Basu secured her daughter in the car seat, climbed behind the wheel of her pale gold BMW and drove off, edging to a halt at a nearby stop sign. At that moment, the peaceful town of Savage, Maryland, lost the irony...
...World War II training base of Britain's Royal Marines, the commanding officer ends his tirade against officers who had seen to their own comfort before that of their men with a purely rhetorical "Any questions?" One moderately adipose and overage (36) lieutenant does have an inquiry. "Would you not agree, sir," he asks, "that it would be ever so much nicer if there were no Marine soldiers and everyone could be an officer...