Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sticks had been left back in Cambridge. Just hours before the scheduled start of the game at Dartmouth, a frantic detachment purchased close to $650 worth of sticks from a local sporting goods store, and as rumor has it, the players were working on honing their sticks to their comfort right up until game time...
Even as his proposals were being raked over in Washington, Clinton could take some comfort from the reviews in the bars and coffee shops around the country. "I feel better about being bled," said Anne Bellamy, 40, as she sat at the bar of the Rusty Pelican in suburban Los Angeles. "I'm one of those girls who make $50,000 a year. I voted for the man fully understanding that my taxes would go up. It's a trade-off. The quality of life in America, not for myself but for everybody, is a real concern...
...take comfort in knowing that the conservatives, at least nominally, have begun to talk about bi/gay/lesbian issues in an open forum. This was one of HQ's objectives--to demand discourse from those who would otherwise have ignored our legitimate voice...
...have to bear a few dirty looks from my classmates but that's a small price to pay for my rhetorical irresponsibility and wanton disruption of time. And my big, fat "A" will be comfort enough...
Many old-style newspaper reporters wore Pulitzer's code as a badge of honor, or used it to justify their low salaries. Many news writers considered it their duty to "comfort the afflicted" and "afflict the comfortable...