Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Captain Singh knew what would happen next: he had run this sequence a dozen times. Toby would begin to cry, the monkey would disappear, he would comfort the child as he carried him back to the house...
...relocating hard-to-reach function keys and providing more support for the wrists. The TONY! keyboard, designed by Anthony Hodges in Mountain View, California, is hinged in the middle, between g and h, so that the hands can meet the keys in a more natural, thumbs-up position. The Comfort keyboard, developed by the Health Care Keyboard Co. of Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, breaks the board into three parts that can be rotated in every direction to suit the needs of individuals typing in every conceivable position -- even standing...
...German demons." Folding Germany into Western Europe's strong embrace, the argument goes, will prevent it from turning eastward to build a new economic empire around the former Soviet satellites. On the other hand, a growing number of Frenchmen find the intimacy prescribed by Maastricht too close for comfort. "France has been a sovereign nation for 1,000 years," said Cognac Mayor Francis Hardy. "We have suffered too much in three wars with Germany to melt into one federal agglomeration...
Such coincidence of bad fortune seems unreal, but it is always a risk of living. My grandfather could hardly have lived a fuller life. In my family's moment of intense grief, that was our comfort. He had his triumphs and endured his tragedies, including the suicide of a son, but he always continued to live...
...soldier, Kerry could never have dreamed that he would later call his boss, then thousands of miles away from the Vietnam's jungles and in the comfort of the "Vite House," into a senatorial hearing to explain the greatest, strangest irony of the war: That we had to continue the war in order...