Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Moynihan, the influential chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. The Senator is quick to qualify his recent bombshell -- "I regret having said there is no health-care crisis in America; there's a health-care insurance crisis" -- but his modified critique of Clinton's plan offers the President scant comfort...
...those who have been screened for a disease gene and tested positive. For some there is hope in the work of scientists like Collins and Anderson, who have discovered that the DNA molecule is not only highly subtle and complex, but correctable as well. The rest may take comfort in the fact that life, even after the genetic revolution, is still a poker game. Our genes are simply the cards we are dealt. What matters most is how we play the hand...
...residents of Dunster and Quincy Houses enjoyed it all last night in the comfort of their own dining halls as part of the Harvard Dining Services' Visiting Chefs series...
...Anytime you come home there is an extra comfort, and extra day of practice and the fans," sophomore Kirk Nielsen said...
...gift of comfort is a powerful theme in angel stories; whether on the battlefield, in the hospital wards, or at the bedside of the dying, angels are traditionally portrayed as bearing souls away to heaven. They reassure both the patients and those they love that whatever will come next is not to be * dreaded. "When Christians die," Graham writes, "an angel will be there to comfort us, to give us peace and joy even at that most critical hour...