Word: discomfort
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...cold had a bulldog grip. Day after day it hung on, biting to the bone. Last week the U.S. suffered more than mere discomfort...
...door," said one) learned to respect and even love him. His absentmindedness was the talk of the campus. He was forever taking his little children out for walks, only to forget all about them and leave them abandoned in some shop or library. Once, after a day of bewildering discomfort, he found he had been wearing his one-piece suit of long underwear upside down...
...view of the ladies on the lower benches was obstructed for some time, and general discomfort resulted to all who had tickets. . . . As far as arrangements for receiving the Princeton team are concerned, they are above criticism, from the fact that there were non at all. . . . The game itself was one of the poorest which our team has yet played, a fact in a great measure due, as we may sagely say, to an ill-judged an improper favoritism on the part of the Captain in selecting the team." Series Since 1877 Harvard Princeton...
...emetic, Edna's Fruit Hat is no tonic. Others may find the whimsy effectively laced with the author's astringent loathing for British lower-middle-class gentility (the stories are laid in unspecified small towns in England). For Author Pudney deftly uses fantasy to show what devastating discomfort the intrusion of improbability can cause in the lives of people who mistake the prejudices of their social group for the laws of nature...
Hard-boiled and well-fed economists might contend that the British were wrong to spend so much money on food and tobacco. But even with the dollar food purchases, the British diet had remained on the thin line that divides discomfort from malnutrition. If British workers had eaten less in the last year they probably would have produced less...