Word: comforted
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Credit munch n.-- Recession-induced comfort eating Usage: "Stressed-out Britons have piled on 20 million stone in a year trying to 'comfort eat' their way through the recession, according to [a] report out today. The condition--dubbed the credit munch--has seen three in five Britons put on weight in the past 12 months." --the U.K.'s Daily Express...
...coming to America, she did not know anything outside Zimbabwe. Gumboots was an opportunity to feel close to her home culture.“It was the people there,” she says. “In a lot of ways I was like the miners looking for comfort and company and something familiar.”When the group started struggling, Mohamed says she helped resuscitate Gumboots, taking over its teaching and choreography, in addition to helping with costumes.She recounts collecting bottle tops from the pubs around Cambridge, using a nail and hammer to make shakers...
Given that practically all of Cambodia's historic Chinese shophouses have been demolished, it is some comfort to know that one of the finest not only survives but thrives as a trendy cocktail bar cum art gallery...
Women take some comfort in the fact that they are a constituency that most presidential candidates - with the notable exception of the incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - are courting. Karroubi announced on Tuesday that he could consider women for six of his Cabinet posts, including the ministries of Foreign Affairs and Islamic Guidance and Culture. Similarly, the aide of another candidate, Mohsen Rezai, told TIME that Rezai will consider a woman as "Hillary Clinton's Iranian counterpart." "The fact that the candidates are talking about women in their Cabinets is a step forward," says Shadi Sadr, lawyer and women's rights activist...
...downturn could be a blessing in disguise for some countries, since highly skilled professional talents can transfer their skills and become useful in their often poorer home countries. Though their salaries may not be as good as the previous jobs they held, they might find more security in the comfort of the familiar rather than in an uncertain position in an alien land, and both they and the countries that welcome them back will benefit. Philip Verghese, Secunderabad, India...