Word: discomforted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rich Rumanians who cannot command a plane, the immediate future is black indeed. And to add to their discomfort, they catch more & more sly grins on peasant faces. The peasants, who have nothing to lose in the flight of Rumania's mighty, have nothing to fear from Russia's Red Army. In Rumania recently, the clash and clatter has been less the preparation for battle than the headlong stampede of the wealthy and great for visas and seats on the outbound trains...
...first Republican object their eyes fell on, to his considerable discomfort, was Harrison Spangler...
...enemies are encountered on the high seas. We are down here to support and defend the friends of the Allies, wherever they may be. And battle Axis influences wherever they may be. ... The job of an armed force in wartime is to support our friends and bring discomfort to our enemies." The Vice Admiral's words amounted to a big-stick warning that: 1) the U.S. regards the present Argentine Government as a hostile regime; and 2) the U.S. will defend its democratic friends, such as Uruguay, from any military, Fascist-like revolt instigated by Argentina...
Continuing its appeal to the country, the Red Cross has again urged the students to donate blood for the use of the armed forces. They remind the people that giving blood takes no more than an hour's time and causes no real discomfort; at the same time it is a valuable contribution to the medical resources overseas...
...more basic matters of truth and confidence, a wave of popular discomfort penetrated deep from the editorial columns. That "the Army has been caught in a barefaced misstaternent of fact" (as the Cleveland Plain Dealer put it), was bound to have repercussions far beyond the personal fate of the Problem General...