Word: comforting
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...says the agency has been logging up to 500 phone calls a day from worried drivers and passengers who want to shut off or disable the safety devices. "When we take the time to explain how to use them properly," he says, "the vast majority [of callers] regain their comfort with air bags." However, the recent spate of publicity has taken its toll on public confidence. Declared a bystander outside the safety agency's news conference: "They're letting us disconnect them? Great. I don't want to be killed...
Baby Boy Grossberg, as he is being called, was born at about 4 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 12, in Room 220 of the Comfort Inn, a motel in Newark, Delaware. Earlier that night, Grossberg, 18, a freshman at the University of Delaware, had called her boyfriend Peterson, also 18, and told him that she was going into labor. Peterson then drove from Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, where he is a freshman, to meet Grossberg. They went to the motel, and she gave birth...
About the time most prospective parents are obsessing over what color to paint the nursery, Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson Jr. were acquiring a gray garbage bag with yellow drawstrings and a map of Newark, Delaware, to help them find a Comfort Inn off the highway, where birth and death could come and go in a moment. Was there ever a second when one of them was shocked by the horror of it all and said, "No, we can't do this. Have we lost our minds?" only to be talked back into it by the other? Did they hear...
...from our former enemy, the Imperial Army of Japan. The Emperor Hirohito, you will recall, kindly saw to it that his troops were supplied with teenage sex slaves for the relief of those well-known male physical needs. Only there was a crucial difference between the Japanese army's "comfort women" and the young women trainees who have been abused by their brothers-in-arms in the U.S. military--a crucial military difference, that is. The comfort women of World War II were captives of war--so every assault they endured could be seen, by their assailants, as a humiliation...
What I am certain of, however, is that if our positions had been reversed, had my friend tried to cheer me up using the same arguments I had, the words would have struck me as too hollow to be of real comfort. I told him that low LSAT scores didn't mean he wasn't intelligent, didn't mean he couldn't be a success in whatever field he chose. Intellectually, I fundamentally believe these thoughts. But it was almost painful for me to say them because there's a less rational part of me that finds them utterly useless...