Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...present, America in 1996 was the answer to every college essay question: it was not what it appeared. Pleased to be living more comfortably than it had in quite a while, it was, under the skin, uncomfortable with its comfort. It was not itself. In spite of the evident prosperity, most people understood there was something rotten in Denmark. Whatever. Along with moderate politics went moderate will, moderate standards of conduct, moderate rage. The country might turn its head away from certain unpleasant, blatant facts, but it knew that it had done nothing about poverty, nothing about persistent racism, nothing...
...real gadget guru, you already know about the Sharper Image chain of stores. Save time on the T by visiting them on-line at sharper-image.com and buy gifts from the comfort of your bedroom...
...experiments. At nearby computer terminals, museumgoers view digitized images of the manuscript close up, reading English translations alongside Leonardo's Italian, zeroing in on specific drawings and flipping back and forth between the master's idiosyncratic mirror-image writing and ordinary script. (The left-handed Leonardo wrote backward for comfort--not, as myth has it, for protection against prying eyes...
Haynes echoed the comfort which comes from "someone who's slogging through the campaign with...
...mean rape can be seen as just another lighthearted form of R. and R. because the intent is still to defeat the other side. As the Bosnian Serbs understood so well, the best way to get the enemy steamed was to put their wives to work as latter-day comfort women...