Word: discomfort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Anita Hill case, far from expanding women's rights, was a disaster for civil liberties. That Hill, an articulate graduate of the Yale Law School, could find no job-preserving way to communicate to her employer her discomfort with mild off-color banter strained credulity. That Thomas could be publicly grilled about trivial lunchtime conversations that occurred 10 years earlier was an outrage worthy of Stalinist Russia...
...children. There is a fine line between wanna-be fashion and no-clue fashion. Right now, that line is the stripe. Many people my age and older seem to pull off the racing stripe, but even they appear uncomfortable at times. The most conspicuous example of stripe-discomfort is found in the person who just can't quite believe that the black and white stripes lining his or her blue jeans are really supposed to be there...
...Sandel expressed a different opinion,saying that certain levels of discomfort promotelearning and interaction with different cultures...
...Administration's Donahue-style talk show suddenly lurched into an updated version of a Vietnam-era teach-in. The selling of Operation Desert Thunder had become a public relations debacle. But it wasn't just the noisy minority doing what comes naturally to university students, or the obvious discomfort among the TV people on the floor. What really damaged the sales pitch of Washington's three amigos was the questions from scholars, veterans and other upstanding citizens in the audience...
...President Lawrence A. Low- ell--who had just instituted compulsorydormitory living for first-years--barred blackstudents from the dorms. According to Lowell, themeasure was designed to placate Southern studentswho might have experienced "discomfort" by livingin such close quarters with black students...