Word: comfortes
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From the match’s very inception, the action was close. Too close for the Illini’s comfort...
Andreou, Begley’s editor, attributes this worldliness to Begley’s fluency and comfort in multiple languages and countries...
...years while at the same time celebrating the svelte and the diets that make them that way. So it's not enough to say the fast-food industry's propaganda trumps our mass desire to be slender. Something else must be operative here--some desperate need for sugary comfort that all the green, leafy vegetables in the world cannot satisfy. We still say it's spinach, and we still say the hell with it. --By Richard Schickel
...cultural feathering they bring with them--language, dress, music--is often shed within a generation. But the foods linger. "The last part of a culture that gets lost are the food ways," says Barrett Brenton, nutritional anthropologist at St. John's University in New York City. "We find comfort in our cuisines...
...were reluctant to pass the torch to their kids, hoping their labor would hoist the younger generation into more prestigious professions. That's changing. As the businesses grow, American-born heirs are increasingly willing to follow in their immigrant parents' footsteps. Armed with native English, advanced education and a comfort with change, the new generation is modernizing the family businesses in ways their parents never dreamed possible...