Word: discomforting
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...Catharsis and discomfort...
...discomfort engendered by the Milosevic trial goes far deeper than the possibility of exposing Western prevarication as the Balkans unraveled. The very precedent of empowering an international judiciary to go after those accused of war crimes has many in the corridors of power alarmed. Washington is opposed to the creation of a permanent tribunal under U.N. auspices for just such purposes, for fear that such an institution could be turned against the world's only superpower. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has been even more direct, calling for limits on "universal jurisdiction" prosecutions. Kissinger, of course, has some personal...
...rebuttal to the readers who wrote defending school dodge ball [LETTERS, June 11]. A child not as physically developed as some other children should not be placed in a situation of discomfort as might occur in playing dodge ball. Sports like basketball and football allow individuals to make their own decision about how competitively to play. STEVEN WRIGHT Hamilton...
...runaway football player and browbeaten into filing a false insurance claim by his ambulance-chasing brother-in-law. In 1968's "The Odd Couple," Lemmon was the surrealistically fastidious Felix Unger to Matthau's slovenly Oscar Madison - a movie whose comedic bliss is occasionally spoiled by the discomfort brought on by the sheer force of Lemmon's unrelenting loserishness. That success led the pair to a lifelong partnership that extended to co-starring in six more films (plus 1971's "Kotch," in which Lemmon directed Matthau to an Oscar nomination), a string that ended with the hits "Grumpy...
...legs and flexible ankles. His conditioning is exemplary and his heart rate low. He is stockier than most mountaineers, who tend toward lanky, long muscles. But he possesses an abundance of the one indispensable characteristic of a great mountaineer: mental toughness, the ability to withstand tremendous amounts of cold, discomfort, physical pain, boredom, bad food, insomnia and tedious conversation when you're snowed into a pup tent for a week on a 3-ft.-wide ice shelf at 20,000 ft. (That happened to Erik on Alaska's Denali.) On Everest, toughness is perhaps the most important trait a climber...