Word: discomfort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rate (4%) is about half that of New Hampshire. Still, many of the same unhappy themes run deep through states across the country. The American electorate is in a volatile mood, impatient with incumbents, with political emptiness and with a feeling of unfamiliar, inexplicable embarrassment before the world, a discomfort focused lately by Japanese remarks about America's work habits...
...Saddam's discomfort, the rebels not only stood their ground but launched a furious counteroffensive in October, expanding their control far south of the 36th parallel and seizing the Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah (pop. 1.2 million). Iraqi troops retreated in disorder, leaving behind long lines of tanks...
...watching the preparations with breath held in apprehension, this was the calm before the blizzard. There were a few contretemps: some Russians complained about the lack of fax machines in the Olympic Village, and the official Chinese news agency announced that the accommodations here set new Olympic records for discomfort. The International Olympic Committee provoked mumbles with its sudden threat to introduce blood testing, which it just as quickly dropped. Even official brochures treated the athletes like errant children: "Moving from one Village to another is of course possible -- if not recommended -- provided official permission is granted...
...Discomfort with Taft's paleoconservatism, seen as discredited by the failure of high tariffs, the global implications of World War II and the formation of the Soviet Bloc, was strong enough to carry Ike to the nomination and eventual victory. While it is not true that this was the final defeat of paleoconservatives, Taft's failed candidacy was the closest such activists ever came to capturing the big prize in the postwar...
...past decade were especially decent people who just let their guard down. In interviews with 50 cop killers, says FBI forensic psychologist Anthony Pinizzotto, the agency heard again and again that the victims provided an opening when they took it easy on the suspect. To spare one collar the discomfort of being handcuffed behind his back, for example, a policeman cuffed him in front and let him ride in the patrol-car passenger seat; the suspect grabbed the officer's gun and killed him. Female officers reportedly were tougher on body searches -- and it paid off. Policemen reluctant to conduct...