Word: discomfort
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Blaming the wind more than any near zero temperatures for early winter discomfort, husky Paul Ducharme, third term business school student from North Dakota has covered every conceivable cranny in his apartment with weather-stripping. "We're accustomed to cold weather," Ducharme said. "I remember back home when it was 50 below and the wind blew at 40 miles per hour...
Both Left and Right were malodorous in Greece (armed struggle between the factions left 50 dead on election eve). But Britain, and by implication the U.S., were committed, in the nature of the bigger world issues, to support of the Right. Both Governments squirmed with discomfort, for both had failed to make clear to their people the necessity of their unpleasant choice...
...Communist -turned -book -peddler sat uneasily before a Washington microphone. Reason for Earl Browder's discomfort: a battery of four newsmen, a little less than friendly, a little more than anxious to interview him on Mutual's Meet the Press program...
...Genius. Years later, when married, a father and famous as the author of The Scarlet Letter, he was still a recluse at heart. Young William Dean Howells went to call on him in Concord, found him "visibly shy to the point of discomfort." His Concord neighbor Bronson Alcott noted in his journal: "I get glimpses of Hawthorne as I walk up the sledpaths, he dodging about amongst the trees on his hilltop as if he feared his neighbor's eyes would catch him as he walked. A coy genius. . . . Nobody gets a chance to speak with him unless...
...Look! . . . The Administration has ways at its disposal to get [U.S. surplus] wheat and send it overseas. If things really get tough, we will accept rationing. Of course we will groan and grumble and protest, but that only expresses our discomfort, not our displeasure...