Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...president--standing before Republican leaders and flanked by cheering students--said he always performs better when he fights from behind. He told the boisterous supporters that he gets a "little comfort from some of these poll...it gives you a certain freedom...
President Bush seemed to be leaning toward approval, despite the opposition of antiabortion groups who were disturbed that the plan did not provide anything but "comfort care" for premature infants with the least chance of survival. But the President was taken aback, according to several reports, when Robert Powell, a vice president of the National Right to Life Committee, voiced his opposition at a White House photo opportunity several months ago. "If that plan was in effect when I was born in Texas," Powell told the President, "I'd be dead today." As an infant, Powell developed an inoperable tumor...
...observed, "Arthur took on some of Punch's winning characteristics -- his self-deprecating humor, his listening rather than talking." (He did not find it humorous, however, when people tried to stick him with the obvious diminutive "Pinch.") When, just after being named publisher, he said that it gave him comfort to know that his father would remain as company chairman and be there to counsel him, colleagues believed...
...describe him as "nodding tirelessly in opposite directions," was no match for the hard men of Bolshevism. Their fledgling regime, already embroiled in intramural disputes, was threatened by enemies on all sides, and they saw the Romanovs as both a potential threat and a trump card. From the relative comfort of their initial captivity, the family was handed over to the determined Bolshevik leaders of the Red Urals in Ekaterinburg to spend their last weeks in the villa that their new masters named the House of Special Designation...
Given the potential for conflict, it is surprising that personal chemistry between the two men clinched the vice-presidential nod for Gore. "The big factor was the personal and political comfort level Bill felt with Gore," explains a senior Clinton adviser. "Every time, Bill would come away from a conversation with Gore and say, 'He's so smart...