Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact that Russian instability -- or Somali anarchy or Bosnian carnage -- keeps ringing at odd hours, and often on weekends, shows that turmoil has no respect for civilized comfort. More fundamentally, the alarms amount to further proof that the world is far from being a tidier place without Soviet- American antagonism to kick it around. If the Kremlin no longer helps to orchestrate conflicts in remote countries, it presides over a veritable Mongolian hot pot of disorder at home. At the same time, impoverished lands like Somalia, with a scant sense of nationhood, remain just as prey to pandemonium as they...
Though house masters said that overcrowding in sophomore rooms has decreased this year, statistics cannot comfort the students whose new residences are a far cry from first-year comfort...
...into the Islamic Center, located in a suburb on Munich's north side, which is home to a large immigrant Muslim community. The center boasts a futuristic blue mosque, dormitory-style accommodations where arrivals like Abouhalima can stay, as well as instruction in the Koran. But Abouhalima's newfound comfort was shattered in October 1982, when his request for asylum was denied. The reason: if Abouhalima had never participated in crimes, as he maintained, he should have nothing to fear from the Egyptian authorities. Germany gave him two weeks to leave the country...
...exact word either of them would use for it; minutes into Finley's first monologue, she is "bleeding and puking on your mauve living room" because she finds no other way of rousing us from our apathy: "hello America, no answer, hello society, no answer...no more comfort." References to the Rodney King riots, the Clarence Thomas trial and the William Kennedy affair back up her mournful claim that "this is the the age of reverse." Even in her more humorous moments, she refuses to compromise her political sensibility: "I want all girl bands on the late night talk shows...
...relatives no longer live in the same comfort they once enjoyed. All of their windows now have bars, their doors have iron gates, and their automobiles have alarm systems. All South Africans, whether they be white, colored, Indian or Black, are feeling the effects of increased lawlessness. Johannesburg, the country's largest city, was recently pronounced the murder capital of the world. Its per capita death rate due to violent crime far exceeds those of both New York and Los Angeles. The violence is especially pronounced in some townships. In Soweto, one two-week period witnessed the killing of over...