Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time playing golf as the jury deliberated, waiting for the verdict proved to be excruciating for most of the principals. Fred Goldman spent the first Thursday afternoon of deliberations just driving alone around Los Angeles. Denise Brown was at her parents' house in Orange County, trying to comfort her mother Juditha. Juditha was worried about Denise, convinced that Simpson would somehow hurt her. The Browns were also concerned about logistics: How would they get into the courthouse when the verdict came down without going through the media-and-heckler gauntlet? They sent an emissary to scout a back entrance...
...deep comfort to read such a thoughtful commentary on an exceedingly important subject. --Kevin Krim...
What is so wrong with comfort? For Epps, it is not comfort itself that is bothersome, but the idea of making comfort possible through connecting that part of the 'I' which is a member of 'we.' For Appelbaum, it is comfort that is bothersome because the level of comfort to be delivered by a multicultural student center is an acknowledgment of the existence of a 'we' apart from his own self-created white conservative 'we.' Congruently, the other College Republican on the panel, the more moderate William D. Zerhouni '97-'98, was--in his patronizing manner--perhaps friendly...
Although tension may be mounting in your common room, take comfort in the fact that you are not alone. Most first-years on campus have already thought about blocking, and many are beginning to panic...
...Leaguers can at least take comfort in the fact that if the major college game has changed for the worse, our own game is much the same as ever...