Word: discomforts
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...pleasant way to start the new year for any of the nearly 2,000 troops who arrived at Tuzla air base as the vanguard of U.S. peace enforcers. Over the previous two weeks, the army's hurry-up-and-wait tradition had been borne out amply and with sore discomfort as units of the 1st Armored Division were ordered to roll south on the double from Germany. First, many soldiers who arrived by dribs and drabs in Kaposvar, Hungary, had to cool their heels for a week in former Scud-missile sheds while the bridge was built over the Sava...
...mouth-feel time. We have been standing around, five slightly nervous Time journalists who have volunteered to taste potato chips cooked in olestra. Because the stuff has not been approved by the FDA, each of us has signed a Procter & Gamble "informed consent" release, which we notice with some discomfort bears the 800 number of a doctor to call in case of emergency. This fellow, whose name is Sweeney, will chopper in with a medevac team if something goes wrong. Or so we assume...
...African-American community clearly has great discomfort with memorializing those who fought for the South. That discomfort is very important. We won't do something on this unless we are together as a community," Reardon said...
...enlarged heart. The autopsy also revealed that the skater had suffered a heart attack in the 24 hours before his death, but given his stoic nature and his high threshold of pain--he often skated with shoulder and back miseries--Grinkov might have brushed off the attack as mere discomfort. Indeed, the essence of his genius on the ice was that he sublimated his own presence to highlight the beauty of Gordeeva. "He was totally devoted to her," said JoJo Starbuck, a former U.S. pairs champion who has worked with G and G, "and she would look at him with...
...greatest fear for those closest to Dole--those managing his effort and those who have known him for decades--is Dole's discomfort with his own campaign's core themes and strategy. They see and hear the tension in Dole's mind as he races forward, tension that is real and growing. Dole knows what he believes, and what he believes is often hidden as he follows the advice of "the professionals" controlling his effort, the men and women who view the Republican nominating electorate as more conservative than their candidate. Dole himself feels that dissonance keenly. His political soul...