Word: discomforted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paris decreed several years ago that the layered look was In. Last year it was the lumberjack look (TIME, Nov. 29). Willy, or more probably nilly, the doyens of fashion were making warm, practical sense. In this winter of American discomfort, it is not only chic-for men as well as women-but positively de rigueur to be decked out like an able-bodied seaman on the Murmansk...
...White House, the family's chief discomfort was the 65° temperature. "The only warm place I can find upstairs is the kitchen," said Rosalynn. "I had to put one sweater over another." Amy slept in her warmest pajamas, and the dining-room fire was lighted for meals...
...editors in New York, often accused (they believe unfairly) of being somewhat less hardy than their comrades in the heartland, shared fully for once in the discomfort of their situation. As temperatures dropped to zero around the Time-Life Building, they endured delays of up to five hours in reaching work, were forced to seek out virtually unattainable hotel rooms and suffered all the icy vicissitudes common last week to so many of their fellow Americans. Cover Writer Ed Magnuson, who performed his duties in the comfortable 70° temperature of his 25th-floor office overlooking a frigid Manhattan...
...cold enough at home to freeze submarines into the ice in Groton, Conn., but New Englanders were somewhat smugly observing the discomfort elsewhere in the land. They had been especially hard-hit during the oil crisis of 1973-74. Since then, they have managed to accumulate some reserves, and Yankee dealers have become adept at scrounging new supplies. Moreover, the area uses little of what is now so scarce: natural gas. Nonetheless, as the sun rose cheerless over hills of gray, snowbound New Englanders felt the cold-in their pocketbooks. Both inflation and the severe winter mean that an average...
...didn't start out that badly. We're not talking MacDonald's, but the cheeseburgers for lunch at least went down with only the minimum amount of discomfort...