Word: discomforted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opponent; in other sports, this is called "psyching up" and encouraged, but in tennis it is called ungentlemanly. Those Americans who realize that a backboard is but three feet wide will never love the sport as long as it remains corseted in the tight Victorian discomfort of false politeness...
...follow that advice. Jordan has been urging Carter, for instance, to resist attacking Ronald Reagan, to leave such criticism to the media. But the President has already started condemning his opponent. Carter and Jordan have had another disagreement over the Republican candidate. To the President's acute discomfort, Jordan hopes that Reagan will move well ahead of Carter in the polls. In Jordan's view, the Californian still has never been studied closely, and once Reagan is out in front he will not be able to stand the pressure. Says Jordan: "Such big forces converge to stop...
People exposed to the dust, even hundreds of miles away, suffered temporary discomfort: dry and itchy noses, throats and eyes. Reported a resident of Missoula: "I feel like someone popped my eyeballs out and rolled them around in a sandbox." But most of the ash particles were too large to lodge in human lungs and permanently scar them. Moreover, the dust did not stay in the air long enough to cause silicosis, which is a lung disease that miners, masonry workers, sandblasters and toilers in similar occupations get from breathing dust-laden air over long periods of time...
...international impact of the ill-fated American venture was the most serious consequence of the operation. As thousands of joyful Iranians rushed again into Tehran's streets to gloat over America's discomfort, Iran edged ever closer to new economic and diplomatic collaboration with the Soviet Union, the menacing neighbor to the north that Khomeini had recently denounced. Handed an irresistible propaganda opening by Carter, the Soviet press made the most of it. TASS accused Carter of an "abortive provocation" that could have caused "mass bloodshed and the death of the hostages"?lives TASS claimed the U.S. President...
...else, and then transmits them to her readers. In an essay on Stevens, entitled "Apollo's Harsher Songs," she isolates the poet's moments of brutality toward himself and his life "because brutality, in Stevens, (and in other poets as well), is usually a sign of extreme discomfort, misery, and self-hatred." Vendler communicates the bitterness and catastrophe that underlie many of his poems to her reader in an educational but unintimidating fashion, quoting from him dexterously--as if Stevens advises her where to begin and where to end a passage. Moreover, Vendler avoids blatantly technical analysis which, she claims...