Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While it does not rain much at the Disney parks in California and Florida, it certainly does in northern France. Euro Disneyland's designers are building special covered waiting areas for the comfort of visitors standing in line to buy tickets, and will provide a variety of audiovisual entertainment to help them pass the time...
...ousted British Prime Minister seemed her old intrepid self on a visit to Washington two weeks ago, a number of close friends say she has decided to give up her seat in Parliament after holding it for 31 years. In the weeks after she lost the premiership, Thatcher took comfort in the fact that protege John Major succeeded her, and she hoped to exercise wide influence over post-gulf war policy. Major has largely backed away from Thatcherism, however, and has done nothing more than pay tribute to Thatcher "res-oluteness and staunchness" in committing Britain to the anti- Saddam...
...gulf states -- ripe targets with their oil riches and sparse populations -- a doctrine of deterrence is not comfort enough. They intend never to be at risk again. In a meeting in Damascus this week, Egypt and Syria, which have emerged as regional strongmen, and the six gulf states will consider plans for creating an Arab security force to bolster the defenses of the gulf countries. They envision a semipermanent troop, made up mostly of Egyptians and Syrians...
...longest stories define a society "where ladies knew the names of other ladies' gardeners and maids and lapdogs," where people prize refinement and "whitish houses like Museums of Comfort." Red necks in these pages are likely to be the result of menopausal hot flashes rather than of exposure...
...evening, when the meals are over and the winds pick up and the temperatures drop below freezing, there are words of comfort. Some come from tentmates, some from letters, some from the radio muttering at cotside 24 hours a day. There are favorite songs, including one that is making the rounds of tents and bunkers in northern Saudi Arabia. It is a verse for a soldier, the 91st Psalm...