Word: discomfortable
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...comfortable, the machine must use 27 electrical circuits whose permutations & combinations offer 390,625 possible ways out of discomfort. The gadget is said by Psychiatrist Ashby to "think" because it quickly chooses the proper way, and soon becomes comfortable again, with all its magnets centered...
Sweden's clergy was piously thunderstruck to learn of the U.S. general's prayers. Said the Rev. Hans Ackerhielm, assistant pastor of Stockholm's fashionable Hedvig Eleonora parish: "I have read this with the greatest discomfort." Said Dean Anderberg of Uppsala, chief of Swedish army chaplains: "For that kind of thing I can only use the old-fashioned word 'heresy.' When religion is degraded to serve human desires, it becomes entirely useless...
Means of improvement of the unhappy situation are necessarily slow and difficult if any but an arbitrary system of assignment is attempted. The housing authorities have however, profited by two similar autumns, and the discomfort, particularly in the case of the Freshmen in the gym, has been much alleviated. The beds are more comfortable, study conditions better, and the closing hour of the Boylston Reading Room has been extended from 10 to 11 o'clock in the evening...
...Tillie Siegel, 50, of Los Angeles, sued Grauman's Chinese Theater for $5,000 damages. Mrs. Siegel claimed that she had stubbed her toe on Greer Garson's footprint in the cement outside the theater, fallen and suffered bruises, scratches and "discomfort...
...Operations on dogs are painless," explained one of the staff at the surgical research labs. "We always use a general anesthesia, and the animal feels no discomfort...