Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...victory was an added comfort considering the team was coming off a frustrating Brown loss the day before in which the Crimson succumbed to a three-gaol third period by the Bears to lose...
...most physical. There are no glittering ceremonies or grand processions, no public professions, no dramatic visions, only 10,000 acts of private veneration, prayer, supplication. What the stranger sees is the collective reverence of the like-minded in direct contact with the spiritual, and the awesome testament of comfort received, etched on their faces...
...people outside the medical community paid much attention last May when a three-year-old Hong Kong boy died of a mysterious flu that usually infects only birds. Even this fall, when seven more people came down with the same viral strain--and one of them died--doctors found comfort in the fact that the virus did not seem to be spread from person to person. But then last week two young cousins of one of the victims fell ill with what appeared to be the same disease, prompting medical authorities in the U.S. and China to warn that this...
...Washington, President Clinton tried to accentuate the positive. ?The successful prosecution of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols should offer a measure of comfort that all Americans stand with the families of Oklahoma City,? he said in a statement, adding his thanks to the prosecution team for their hard work: ?The nation is deeply in their debt...
...related media. TV appeals to the broad middle-aged, movies to the young and younger. The living room is the woman's domain, the cineplex a guys' clubhouse. TV bathes in social reassurance; movies strut toward sociopathic threat. Not many performers commute between the two with much profit or comfort. Yet Hunt has one of the 10 highest Q ratings (recognizability plus likability) of all women in entertainment, and her most recent movie, Twister, was the second top-grossing film...