Word: discomforting
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...apologize that the shirts caused any discomfort,” said Tom Goulet, a customer service representative at the company’s hotline. “It was definitely not our intention. Abercrombie is about humor...
Grinspoon spoke in defense of marijuana’s soothing properties when used on a medical prescription. He said protease inhibitors, drugs that help combat AIDS, cause extreme nausea—and taking marijuana eliminates this side-effect and allows people afflicted with the disease to eat without discomfort...
...right there, I was so close. And I fucked it up. I did everything I could do to fuck it up. I think that there was a part of me that just knew that it just wasn’t for me.” Lord’s discomfort with the prospect of fame can be found in a verse from her song, “Some Jingle Jangle Morning,” which was written in the early ’90s and eerily foreshadows the turmoil she would later experience...
...having been drawn into the game, the Saudis have an agenda of their own. They indicated Monday that they would not raise the proposal in Beirut unless Arafat was present - a direct challenge to Washington to press Sharon to end the Palestinian leader's confinement to Ramallah. More diplomatic discomfort for the Israeli leader emerged Monday, when Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak called for a Sharon-Arafat summit meeting in Egypt. Sitting down with Arafat would require a 180-degree turnabout by Sharon right now. But Secretary of State Colin Powell expressed interest in the idea. Of course, that...
...moment in a kidnapping, as one of the captors felt a pang of discomfort. The American backpacker had climbed willingly into the conspirators' van, lured by the false promise of dinner with a local Delhi family. Now it was time to tell him he was a hostage. The crisis of conscience was short-lived, but it was significant enough for the kidnapper to recall later in a confession he penned in jail. "All of a sudden, I felt terribly embarrassed," he wrote. So embarrassed that, hoping to evade responsibility, he begged his co-conspirator in Hindi, "Kidnap me also...