Word: discomforted
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...Although only a few Faculty will be laid off, every loss is a great discomfort and will have adverse effects," Hiatt said...
Historian Barbara Tuchman offered the appropriate judgment: "Could anyone, remembering past attitudes, look at that picture of President Nixon and Chairman Mao in twin armchairs, with slightly queasy smiles bravely worn to conceal their mutual discomfort, and not feel a stunned sense that truth is indeed weirder than fiction?" The title of her address: "Why Policymakers...
...have only recently returned from five weeks in the Republic of Ireland. The food isn't particularly great, but it is fresh. When I returned to New York, nothing tasted right. I got no lift from my food; only listlessness and discomfort. Our food is not really meant for human consumption -only for machines...
...chaos. Updike has become a mature commentator; if his characters don't know their ultimate fate, they do determine their direction. Even "The Witnesses," the story nearest to tragedy (and one of Updike's best), portrays a mediocre man with a sexual itch who succeeds, much to the discomfort of his respectable friends, in weirdly legitimizing an actually sordid affair. In other hands, the material would be dreary, condescending; Updike makes it moving and unsettling...
...diagnosis," ruling out those conditions that the patient does not have, particularly the one that worries him most. Finally, the physician can explain the symptoms to the patient and assure him that they are harmless. Under no circumstances, however, should he try to deny the existence of pain or discomfort. Most patients dote on their symptoms, and will shop for a physician who is just as interested...