Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...features best sellers like our woven bamboo Margaret Mead Litter Chairs; our World War I Turkish Cavalry Helmets (wonderful as planters); and our Lord Kitchener Lawn Furniture, made entirely of distressed, vintage cricket paddles. A new favorite of Jan's dad, who's very particular when it comes to comfort, is our hand-rubbed rhino-skin Royal Bengalese Club Chair. Sink into this overstuffed beauty, and try not to imagine yourself in the highest echelons of the Raj, ordering a vodka tonic or dispatching 1,000 Gurkhas to certain death in the Khyber Pass...
EXPOSURE TO PESTICIDES MAY POSE A health risk and reduce sperm count. Nowhere are the genetic consequences of such exposure more readily seen than in the post-Vietnam War era and, more recently, in the progeny of Gulf War veterans. Only the naive may find comfort in thoughts of a golden future; the decline of man has already begun. PETER HARDING Nullamanna, Australia...
...What I shoot is based on so many variables: state of mind, weather. You latch on to things that give you comfort," says senior Joel Radtke, the captain of the Harvard men's golf team...
...globalization of our societies and economies actually might provide many more opportunities than the above discussion indicates. Certainly, the comfort of a safe, prosperous and leisurely existence in a guaranteed profession may vanish for almost all but a select few, and even students of this prestigious and established institution are not likely to be excluded from this development. In this respect, one can be reminded of the early 1940s...
...innocence and hope, cannot be comprehended or diagnosed in language that is less than absolute. "Haywire" won't do. "Psychotic," "maniac" and so on suggest mere dysfunction, or else a morally neutral spasm of the reptilian brain, a bug or two in the limbic system. Nor is there much comfort in thinking that such behavior arises from some Darwinian maladaption. "Man has developed so rapidly," Loren Eiseley wrote, "that he has suffered a major loss of precise instinctive controls of behavior. So society must teach those controls. And when it does not, then the human arrangement breaks apart...