Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson cagers took a 12-point lead into half before walking away with the contest 95-53, as most of Harvard's starters observed the last 10 minutes of action from the comfort and safety of the sideline...
...student feels a certain level of comfort begins with some bond between the mentor and herself, we try to achieve that," March says. "That usually takes the form of some kind of commonality, sometimes ethnicity, but I wouldn't prioritize...
...watched its parents divorce and then saw technology increasingly elevate E-mail and faxes over the human touch finds itself yearning for the days not of its parents but of its grandparents. "You get constant change coming at you, and the reaction is to head to the things of comfort--family, religion, marriage, kids," says Chip Walker, director of global marketing for Phillips, the electronics maker...
...being a) very rich and well-bred, and b) dressed in tacky costume jewelry and embarrasingly ill-applied makeup. At any rate, she (or her charming pink-sequined miniskirt) quickly gets the attention of Dr. Ernst. Though at first it appears that Felicia is simply in need of comfort, her more complex desires soon emerge: she wants the young doctor to quietly pull the plug on her vegetative father...
...year-old Jeffrey Curley's killers committed a heinous crime. The people of Massachusetts and the parents of this innocent victim deserve justice and the (inadequate) comfort that accompanies retribution...