Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blunder for Diana and a badly needed plus for them. For once it would make their tweedy rectitude seem appealing to the British public. When compared to the chaotic sequence of greed and blundering that took Diana's life, the thought of a well-organized conspiracy would be a comfort...
...Missionaries' first projects, in 1952, was to turn a former hostel beside a Hindu temple into a place where the poor of Calcutta, who often died alone in the streets, could spend their last hours in comfort and cleanliness. As a Catholic mission, the sisters faced alienation and neighborhood hostility. The temple priests even asked city authorities to relocate the newly named Nirmal Hriday, or Home for the Dying, hospice. But then one of the Hindu priests was found with advanced stages of tuberculosis after he had been denied a bed in a city hospital, reserved for those who could...
...building before was very under-wired and lacking in human comfort," George said...
...proctor had a definite effect on his comfort level with...
...barriers of race may be less blatant, but they are no less formidable. Hailing a change in racism's form as its eradication may provide short-term comfort. But it ensures rather than avoids long-term disaster...