Word: comforting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Deal. Stay two separate times through April 30 at any of Choice Hotels' 10 brands, which include Comfort Inn, Cambria Suites and Econo Lodge, and earn enough points through its Choice Privileges program for a free night at any of its 1,500 hotels. You'll also get free Wi-Fi and breakfast. 800-4CHOICE...
...March 3 with an album called No Line on the Horizon. It offers up a few new hits for the wedding playlist, but No Line on the Horizon is mostly restless, tentative and confused. It's not terrible, but it feels like the work of musicians torn between the comfort of the present and the lure of one last run into the adventurous past...
...activity fraught with asymmetrical power relationships. As Harvard students, we can go paint community centers and tutor poor students and lobby for worker’s rights because we have the luxury of time and stability and because we are prodded along by the tickling guilt of our own comfort. This is not to undercut the work of the many students who participate in service, almost all with genuinely good motivations. Rather, it is to point out that we serve because we can, and we can because we are the beneficiaries of the same social lopsidedness which demands the service...
...don’t like being lost. I’m too nervous and too timid to appreciate the thrill of disorientation. When I returned to campus as a sophomore last fall, I reveled in the comfort of the familiar. I knew with confidence where each new step would take me, and when bewildered freshmen approached me for help, maps clutched to their chests, I gave them indulgent smiles and pointed them in the right direction. With amiable condescension, I’d watch them scuttle off to their next ice cream social in Ticknor, and feel relieved?...
...Staff speculated that her hesitance to run for Council president stemmed from her comfort with the pool of presidential hopefuls. “Andrea [Flores] was running and Andrea is a very strong representative of women and maybe Tamar felt comfortable in that regard,” he said...