Word: discomforts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the other kids didn't know about Joan's surgical history, they teased her about her tomboyish looks and behavior. Public bathrooms proved to be a source of particular discomfort. Joan often insisted on urinating standing up, which usually made a mess. In junior high school, she stood so often in the stalls of the girls' rest room that the girls finally refused to let her in anymore, forcing her to use the boys' room instead...
Republicans want to keep the heat on Democrats without having the investigation spread to their own fund-raising practices. To their immense discomfort, the FBI has been investigating whether the Chinese government funneled money to both parties in last year's congressional races. Senator Fred Thompson, the Tennessee Republican who will be chairman of the hearings, promises he will also look into congressional fund raising. But Republicans, who let lobbyists draft part of environmental legislation in the last Congress, want his questions to stop at the White House...
...Seats. The discomfort felt in your belly is exceeded only by the pain in your behind. Domestic carriers are flying at an average 70% capacity, the highest since World War II. But legroom, as measured by the distance between the seat in front of you and the back of your own, has shrunk from 34 in. in coach 20 years ago to an average of 31 in. today. Doesn't sound like much, but remember that the trend in human girth is running opposite: Americans are getting bigger. The cush has been taken out of the cushions too, from...
...pour champagne. There follows a procession of a dozen courses, from black truffles and pureed celery root in smoked game consomme to venison with obscure types of mushrooms, each with different vintage wines. (The bill for two comes to $390, and picking it up assuages my discomfort that Gates had insisted on putting the previous evening's $37 tab at the Indian restaurant on his MasterCard...
...structure of the moment. In fact, we may subconsciously applaud such speakers because they've hypertexted our little lives right into Friends, Seinfeld or the "I love you, man" ads, and for a moment, at least, we know perfectly how to relate to people, deal with conflict and banish discomfort. Not being in control--that's our real worst nightmare...