My hair was my everything; it was my security blanket.
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For Lyles, his jumper is like a warm security blanket.
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Every day feels familiar, like your favorite childhood security blanket.
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I get the sense that this beard is a security blanket.
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"It was a kind of security blanket for him," Ruthann said.
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Some even said she was like "a security blanket" for the president.
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Something Linus carries in "Peanuts" SECURITY BLANKET Circled letters spell CUBE 43A.
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I think I was 2, and that book was my security blanket.
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" —robynp4c7fb3a33 "My security blanket is something I received in the last five years.
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When games are on the line, he's a security blanket unlike any other.
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Even then I'll always wear my long hair down, like a security blanket.
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Your smartphone's lock mode is the grown-up version of a security blanket.
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Burt's Bees Baby Lovey Plush, Hold Me Bee Soother Security Blanket, $14.95; amazon.
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Kaplan is glad she was able to give her family a security blanket.
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Watch how she uses her baggy sweater as both security blanket and armor.
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But I believe it does, and that belief has been a security blanket.
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Indeed, for many quarterbacks, the tight end has become something of a security blanket.
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It's something he just has to have around, like a security blanket or something.
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I use my hair like a security blanket, a fidget spinner and a scarf.
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Just like that, you can consider the lock screen your security blanket once again.
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"That was sort of a security blanket that was just sitting there," he says.
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But people's fondness for this security blanket ultimately helped doom the effort in Congress.
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With the rookie Prescott at the helm, the solid line is a security blanket.
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Some wore a particular sweater, like a security blanket, while working on their profiles.
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"She was my security blanket, she lived with me, we did everything together," she explains.
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"There is a security blanket," said Jeff Kleintop, chief global investment strategist at Charles Schwab.
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Another of my go-to security blanket hashtags is the tag for last summer's #SoGoneChallenge.
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He adorably brought his guitar to his Riverdale audition as a kind of security blanket.
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Cozy up with your security blanket and get ready to sleep with the lights on.
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That security blanket let Japan care more about economics than security for decades, experts say.
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That doesn't even take into account the superdelegates who amount to the Clinton security blanket.
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They look at Ukraine and Iraq and Libya and see nukes as a security blanket.
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Long a human security blanket for Trump, Schiller now hangs out at the White House.
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"For decades, 'Peanuts' was our own daily security blanket," President Obama writes in his introduction.
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Like everyone else, he held a plastic cube, both a security blanket and a badge.
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For me, life insurance is the security blanket that makes everything a little less scary.
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As for the future, Gray said her business degree has given her a "security blanket".
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America's willingness to honor that commitment provides the security blanket that keeps the transatlantic alliance alive.
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SECURITY BLANKET Security was tight around the legislature building, with riot police deployed in some areas.
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"She was my security blanket, she lived with me, we did everything together," Jenner told Kardashian.
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I clung to the disorder like a security blanket, and I was good at hiding it.
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Our favorite entertainment has the power of a security blanket Maybe there's something universal to that.
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Before I quit, I couldn't imagine life without cigarettes, my constant companion, my carcinogenic security blanket!
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"Wall Street just lost its security blanket," said Chris Krueger, policy analyst with Cowen Washington Research Group.
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A company like France Télécom, iconic in French life for years, was an apparent lifelong security blanket.
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Nestled under the U.S. security blanket, Europeans are likely to continue to spend less than Washington wants.
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I needed a security blanket more potent than any I'd ever before clutched in my sweaty hands.
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"It's like a security blanket, like one we used to have as a little kid," Igel explains.
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Game of Thrones fans, grab your nearest security blanket or stress ball, because this news just plain sucks.
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SECURITY BLANKET Security was tight in and around the legislature building, with riot police deployed in some areas.
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Bluntly, every nation that has been able to call America an ally has benefited from its security blanket.
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Gone in an instant was the security blanket Bell accumulated with six wins in the series this season.
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In a way, that can be this security blanket, both for us as sound designers and for the audience.
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Pete Mitchell is clearly hurt by this idea, but he wears the identity of Maverick like a security blanket.
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He can cling to statistics as a kind of rhetorical security blanket, firing off numbers where concision would do.
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Barr is sort of like Trump's security blanket -- when he sees the AG involved, the President just feels better.
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Francona turned early to his security blanket, Andrew Miller, who gave up two runs, double what he'd allowed all postseason.
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I'm autistic, and the media player had become a mix of a sensory regulation aid and security blanket for me.
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I'm not the only one who feels like his consistency over the decades has been something of a security blanket.
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It stuck when little else did, and my siblings, her husband and I clung to it like a security blanket.
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When that hood is down, there's a security blanket factor to feeling it on my back, hanging off my neck.
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In comparison, authorities in mainland China, where the anniversary remains taboo, deployed a security blanket in and around Tiananmen Square.
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In essence, in addition to being lovable, a partner also acts like a combination alarm clock, pacemaker, and security blanket.
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Providing them with a security blanket in the form of life insurance helps me sleep a little better at night.
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It is my Velveteen Rabbit, my lucky charm, my suit of armor and my security blanket all rolled into one.
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"We're not ready to have kids at this moment, and I think it's just safe to have a little security blanket."
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SATC is like a security blanket to me, a familiar and comforting presence that reminds me of my own female friends.
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It helps get us through to adulthoodPop music can be a life jacket, a sexy security blanket, a hipster Hallmark card.
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United States government bonds are considered the safest financial investment you can make — the security blanket of choice for investors worldwide.
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In Indian Kashmir's main city of Srinagar, suspected militants killed a 62-year-old man, police said, despite a security blanket.
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Meanwhile, the city police and the Secret Service have wrapped an incredibly expensive security blanket around a chunk of Fifth Avenue.
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Beneath his sweetly beseeching air lie unruly impulses, so that he calls to mind a security blanket atop an unmade bed.
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Gary Cohn, his chief economic adviser, and Hope Hicks, his communications director and human security blanket, had recently tendered their resignations.
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Toward the end of my drinking days, the fear of losing that security blanket was my main reason for not quitting.
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While the BlackBerry Classic was a dependable presence, the security blanket must have stopped innovation to some degree at the mobile company.
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It supports our NATO allies while providing a security blanket over non-NATO members who are also interested in containing Russian expansion.
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So while I might end up buying one of those adapters, it is more as a security blanket than an actual need.
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"I also always wear hoop earrings [when I work out]; they're like my security blanket" she told Shape magazine in April 2016.
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It's a must-have for dedicated Amazon shoppers, and a great security blanket when you're trying to nab those low holiday prices.
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The security blanket of a Republican House majority is gone, and the Senate may not offer as much protection as it used to.
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When she got older, Charo brought her security blanket over to to the states and onto her first appearance on The Tonight Show.
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"The military is Maduro's security blanket and he is making sure they have a stake in the continuation of his presidency," Smilde explains.
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Ms. Quon I'm an independent person, but being on a medical journey for 17 years, Joel became my rock, anchor and security blanket.
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But it is just that, a talisman, no more effective at warding off imagined evils than a rabbit's foot or a security blanket.
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Though many of us regard our phones are a security blanket, things happen: Laptops and smartphones die and tablets get accidentally left at home.
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But we're left with the reality we have, and a president who keeps returning to football as a wedge issue — even a security blanket.
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They're his security blanket, and his new term will be rife with actual presidential needs like improving the economic and security situation in Egypt.
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Every word-for-word repetition of his Obama pivot ("he knows exactly what he's doing") sounded like a rattled politician reaching for his security blanket.
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I use clothes as armor; clothes are my security blanket and my clothes and outfits are my armor against the world of the chiffon trenches.
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When I'm sitting at my computer on a bad day and I get lonely, I go into my security blanket hashtags and visit my friends.
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No word on when the TV show will drop, but you can bet we'll be tuning in with our security blanket and our tinfoil hats.
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If you're stressed because you just ignited your family's secret financial security blanket, you might want to ease your nerves with a frozen banana daiquiri.
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Today, Brooklinen released its first-ever weighted comforter — just in time to provide the literal security blanket that we could all use right about now.
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I am forever Napoleon holding back his Guard, a deadly security blanket to be used in the last extremity—and often never used at all.
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At the start of the book, Crosby, 37, is America's greatest star, a "national security blanket" whose role is about to grow as war approaches.
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"Wall Street just lost its security blanket," Chris Krueger, Washington strategist at research firm Cowen, said in a Tuesday note to clients after Cohn's announcement.
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"I'm like his security blanket," Hunter said of the former vice president, 76, who is the leading contender to challenge Donald Trump in next year's election.
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"I'm like his security blanket," Hunter said of the former vice president, 76, who is the leading contender to challenge President Trump in next year's election.
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The proverbial security blanket can take the form of a doll we tuck underneath our arm or a tiny train we clutch in our small palms.
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One episode bleeding into the next is a perfect security blanket, especially if you're the kind of person who winds up unable to sleep at 3AM.
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As President Donald Trump's trade wars rattle investors, Wall Street has reached for a security blanket: new Federal Reserve rate cuts to offset the economic damage.
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Weeks of unrest forced nervous authorities to deploy a massive security blanket around the waterfront Convention and Exhibition Centre, the venue for the flag-raising ceremony.
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Weeks of unrest forced nervous authorities to deploy a massive security blanket around the waterfront Convention and Exhibition Centre, the venue of the flag-raising ceremony.
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With a potentially negative earnings season looming, investors see easy Fed policy as the security blanket the stock market needs as it breaks to new highs.
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The security blanket that actually allowed these leaders to get away with reckless, nationalist and regionally dangerous rhetoric without paying a price no longer is there.
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To be honest, some of my friends who have been forced out on their own seem to resent the fact that I have a security blanket.
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They seem to, because I'm seeing them at home where they're comfortable, and a family member may bring the child a security blanket or favorite toy.
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" Still, after announcing he'd be stepping aside from the WWE to focus on his health, Reigns says he felt like "a huge security blanket wrapped around me.
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In a world where illness lurks in every bathroom stall and on every subway strap, antibacterial soaps give people a sense of control, a sudsy security blanket.
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But despite all that, it's not even a question that once I finish my Bluetooth testing, I'll definitely be turning back to my wired headphones' security blanket.
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There's nothing wrong with cardigans, but I have been using them as a security blanket, and as a way to hide my body — not to celebrate it.
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Nancy: Trump campaign staffers, outside advisers and White House aides would love, love, love to see less of Giuliani, but he's like a security blanket for Trump.
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Shapiro has the reality-TV-show habit of thinking of people in epithets, and to her a showrunner is a Wubby—slang for a child's security blanket.
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And once you get used to wearing one, it is also a security blanket in a sport where habits — good, bad or otherwise — can be hard to break.
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Linus is the Peanuts gang's spiritualist, and nothing can shake his faith in the magic of his security blanket or that the Great Pumpkin will eventually make his appearance.
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Donald Trump is getting a massive security blanket, courtesy of the FAA ... so the NYC building where he lives and works does not fall victim to terrorists flying airplanes.
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Below, we rounded up some of our favorite picks, including an irresistible bee security blanket and patterned rompers with a super cute non-slip bee design on the footies.
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My own personal method for following election results mostly revolves around curling up in the fetal position under my bed with a bottle of whiskey and a security blanket.
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But providing Eastern European states with a security blanket runs the risk that these states will behave in ways they normally wouldn't in the absence of America's security guarantee.
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That gesture was a security blanket and a balm — a healing of a still-fresh wound, and a model for gathering love in the face of unpredictable trauma. OpinionTouré
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If Manager Joe Girardi's ironclad, by-the-book protocol leaves some Yankees fans gnashing their teeth from time to time, it feels like a security blanket to Aroldis Chapman.
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I'd wait around for friends to commit to a concert, or I'd buy an extra ticket as a security blanket and hope to find someone closer to the date.
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Alcohol used to be my security blanket in any social situation I felt anxious or uncomfortable in: dates, family parties, nights out with lots of women, work mixers, etc.
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Senior administration officials said they're working to build a framework in the Middle East to counter ISIS, counter Iran and provide a security blanket for America's allies in the region.
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As Trump's longest-serving political aide, Hicks also became known as one of his closest, almost like a "security blanket," as one source told Vanity Fair, and collected myriad titles.
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Better very late than never that Anthony has come to the realization that star partnership has become the N.B.A. rage, the sharing of the spotlight with a collective security blanket.
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While Saudi Arabia is looking to regain "the warmth of the US security blanket," as Henderson put it, the US may be looking for not just closer ties, but better terms.
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So, she brought her introverted BFF along as a security blanket to prove the entire evening was just a Totally Chill Friend Hang, when that was not at all the case.
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After spending time with President Trump at the G7, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has concluded that the United States can no longer be relied upon as a security blanket for Europe.
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The Pretty Little Liars star just let go of what she refers to as her "security blanket," trading cascading waves for a collarbone-length look — but is it the real deal?
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A year in, however, we are confronted with the stark reality that this security blanket is getting worn thin from repeated attacks on the legitimacy and credibility of our democratic institutions.
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The exasperating appendage that I had cursed over the past year had also become my security blanket, knowing that its presence meant he was on the other end of my journey.
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For a long time in this primary, Democrats seemed to be deciding between the progressive sizzle in Mr. Sanders and Senator Elizabeth Warren, or the statesmanlike security blanket in Mr. Biden.
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His mirror mask is about deflecting attention, but it's also a security blanket for a grown-up who's as terrified now as he was emerging from that fun house in 1985.
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I'd always been — the whole 16 years of our marriage — her security blanket, for lack of another word, and in spite of everything I tried to do, I couldn't save her.
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"My hair is like a security blanket for me in a way, so cutting it short or dyeing it a drastic color... I just don't know if I'm that brave," Mitchell says.
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While Blaine is the Luddite, who had only recently graduated from a typewriter to a Windows laptop, Blake is the electronics whiz, who carries his soldering iron around like a security blanket.
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I used to have super long and straight hair, but in retrospect, I realize that I was just hiding behind my length to feel girly and pretty — it was my security blanket.
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A decades-old program you probably don't use but whose existence you want to preserve so it can function as your digital security blanket is not the right cause to take up.
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I was always insecure about my looks, but the one thing I knew I could control was the way my hair looked, so I continued to use it as a security blanket.
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The stockpile of oil — nearly 700 million barrels —was set aside four decades ago to be used in emergencies, kind of like a security blanket against global price shocks and supply disruptions.
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But just when it looked as if Williams's serve, normally her security blanket, would cover her mistakes, she had two double faults to go with three unforced errors over the next seven points.
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And when your phone is the default security blanket for enduring the awkwardness of walking a high school hallway, it feels nice to have a bunch of digital hellos ready with a swipe.
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But also do not dress like you are going to the office, even if the suit is your security blanket, unless you want your old friends to stereotype you immediately (maybe you do).
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That explains why so many women often refer to their Cher-length locks as their "security blanket" (looking at you, Shay Mitchell) and blanch at the idea of chopping any of it off.
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While thanking Cortese for some baby gifts, Polizzi showed off the personalized teddy bear security blanket, piggy bank and a fleece throw blanket she'd received — all with the name "Angelo" printed on them.
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Europe already possesses a security blanket, formally known as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (a military alliance that could use "a reappraisal" itself, as Barry Posen argued recently in The New York Times).
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David Foster Wallace famously employed a white one to soak up his anxious sweat, telling a reporter that it became his "security blanket" — that it somehow helped him prevent his head from exploding.
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"I could tweet the word peanut and they would be like, 'Don't you know that, like, my son'" is allergic, she said, clutching her iPhone in her right hand like a security blanket.
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But the heavy odds are that he'll start right away and he has enough weapons in the passing game — including security blanket David Johnson out of the backfield — to be productive early on.
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His character is equally at ease being a human security blanket for his B-list-actor boss, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, as he is subduing murderous Manson family members while tripping on acid.
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These high-energy particles are perfectly capable of stripping away our planet&aposs thin atmosphere, flinging our helpless nitrogen and oxygen away molecule by molecule, and thus stripping our planet of its security blanket.
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Today, Noname arrives with her debut album, Room 25, where she veers away from the anonymity she used as a security blanket in the past, avoiding most press, photos, and visuals for her songs.
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She's quickly surrounded by an eclectic cast of new characters, while the show also somewhat awkwardly imports "Black-ish" co-star Deon Cole, which feels more like an unnecessary security blanket than anything else.
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MANILA — The Philippines said Tuesday it had officially informed the United States that it was scrapping a military pact that has given the longtime American ally a security blanket for the past two decades.
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And during those notably edgy moments in late January, I'd hold onto it tight, like a security blanket, or just want it nearby, so that I could occasionally tap on it like a talisman.
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I mean, if you think about what is the root problem, the root problem is, how do we maximize all this flexibility, which Dashers love, and provide a security blanket for those who need it?
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While thanking pal Deena Cortese for some baby gifts, Polizzi showed off the personalized teddy bear security blanket, piggy bank and a fleece throw blanket she'd received — all with the name "Angelo" printed on them.
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Originally modeled by Naomi Campbell, it was later worn by Joan Didion in a portrait by Tina Barney and now reimagined in an enveloping, striped cayenne pepper-colored cashgora — part security blanket, part urban cowgirl.
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America will never be wholly energy independent as long as we use oil and it's priced on a global market, but booming domestic production affords us a stronger security blanket, softening and limiting global impacts.
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That trusty blue-and-white logo has been my security blanket for storing files online, helping me do the backing up I'm terrible at, and also keeping me sane while switching between review devices every week.
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The same arbitrariness that leads Trump to seek the counsel of the extremist conspiracy-theorist Stone also led the president to use Hicks, someone who has no experience or background in government, as a security blanket.
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He was the dog of our sons' childhood, the pillow they sprawled on during Saturday-morning cartoons, the security blanket they returned to after an impossible test or a classroom bully or, later, a broken heart.
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This week, hoodies have become my security blanket and my uniform, and a reminder of how lucky some of us are to feel safe and supported, because so many of us are not in that position anymore.
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Trump and his White House advisers are now using Obama as a security blanket, making almost identical moves he made during his tenure and defending possible mistakes by arguing that they were initially made by Barack Obama.
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Trump is using Obama as a security blanket Civilian deaths Reportedly among the dead was the 8-year-old the daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, the late US-born cleric who directed attacks against the United States.
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The actress, who says she "got used to having good skin" realized what a security blanket it had become when she was diagnosed with rosacea at 31 — and encountered severe acne and bacne on top of that.
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When you take away that security blanket, when you get so quiet, people start to lean forward, and they start to hold their breath and get quiet themselves, and become aware of the sounds they are making.
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While I know my hair was at the lowest point health-wise than it had ever been, a part of me still wasn't ready to let go of my scraggly-ended security blanket (bad move numero dos).
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That distinguishes it from Sony, which has been talking about reorganizing its mobile division for longer than competitors like Xiaomi have existed, and from HTC, which still clings to its Sense software like an ineffective security blanket.
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NATO remains Europe's security blanket, with the United States as the top gun and the Europeans as the ranch hands who sign up for foreign military interventions a la carte, the way sheriffs once rounded up cowboys.
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I emerged out of that pit after the lights had gone off and the arcade had closed, two jawbreakers and a security blanket in my hands, and at that moment I knew — I was never going back.
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Millions of millennial Americans live in poverty; millions of others straddle the line, getting by but barely so, often working contingent jobs, with nothing left over for the sort of security blanket that could lighten that cognitive load.
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I know it's probably not the most sensible choice for anyone trying to stay spritely over an entire day or night, but ever since I held my first pint, I've used lager as a kind of security blanket.
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NATO has created an enduring image of a security blanket that Europe depends upon, the United States fulfilling a major part of that role as the shadow of the potential threat of Russia is cast over the continent.
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They are America's security blanket — we can choose what we hear, and we can make it agree with the little voice in our head, and that can be all that we hear if we want it to be.
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No longer responsible for Mr. Trump's physical safety, he is now a combination gatekeeper, valet and security blanket — a familiar face for a president who detests solitude and whose wife and youngest son have remained at Trump Tower.
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Protesters in Hong Kong are expected to march along a route that will end near the government's headquarters, and authorities are likely to rollout a large security blanket as the Hong Kong government holds a low-key ceremony.
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Lehder has been imprisoned since 1988 and he's allegedly protected under the US Marshals Service Witness Security Program, a security blanket granted after he agreed to testify at the trial of Panamanian General Manuel Noriega, another cocaine kingpin.
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The best criticism I can muster about my particular guilty pleasures is that they share a rampant nostalgia for light, old-fashioned stories with binary heroes and villains, emotional manipulation, and ultimately a security blanket-like sense of safety.
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SECURITY BLANKET Tourists thronged Tiananmen Square earlier on Tuesday amid tighter-than-usual security, although most visitors approached by Reuters said they were unaware of the bloody crackdown on student-led protests 30 years ago or would not discuss it.
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You are aware of security blankets, and I assume you're aware of the idea of using familiar cultural products (like the 2005 Jack's Mannequin album Everything in the Transit or the third season of Gilmore Girls) as a security blanket.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's President Xi Jinping arrived in Hong Kong on Thursday to mark its 20th anniversary of Chinese rule as the city went into lockdown with a massive security blanket ahead of celebrations and protests on July 1.
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Senator Mansfield's campaign was also opposed by the Europeans, who preferred to keep their American security blanket, and by President Richard Nixon and his chief foreign affairs adviser, Henry Kissinger, who rejected what he considered congressional meddling in foreign policy.
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"Maduro identifies the military as his security blanket, and his almost five years in office have been marked by the military progressively getting more and more goodies," said David Smilde, a senior fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America.
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Perhaps conservatives, expert or no, are just in denial about the sad situation we find ourselves in and have fallen back on the comfort of blaming liberals and their "science," the way a toddler might clutch at a security blanket.
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Protesters are expected to march dressed in black from Victoria Park in Causeway Bay to Chater Road near government headquarters, and authorities are likely to roll out a large security blanket as the Hong Kong government holds a low-key ceremony.
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While thanking close friend and Jersey Shore costar Deena Cortese for some baby gifts, Polizzi showed off the personalized teddy bear security blanket, piggy bank, and a fleece throw blanket that she had received — all with the name "Angelo" printed on them.
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As for PLL costars Lucy Hale and Shay Mitchell, they haven't undergone any major tress transformations yet (and Mitchell might be hesitant; after all, her hair is her "security blanket") — but there's still a few days left in 2016 to get on board.
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This type of work comes with several additional financial responsibilities relative to full-time workers, who often have employer-sponsored benefits — such as health insurance, a 401(k) plan and employer match, and paid vacation time — that offer a "security blanket," Hannon said.
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Donald Trump in 2006: I 'sort of hope' real estate market tanks The biggest factor weighing against a close election is the electoral map -- which Democrats are gathering around them like a security blanket as it suggests their nominee will have the edge.
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While it can appeal to more moderate voters, it can also remove the security blanket of getting the full support from your own party, and it can draw accusations of being a fair-weather politician based on the changing moods among voters.
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The game has also served as a security blanket for Baez, giving him something to cling to after his father, Angel, died and his mother moved the family from Puerto Rico to seek better care for Noely, who was born with spina bifida.
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She gripped a soaked brown towel as if it were a security blanket, first wiping her face, then burying it, as her belongings paraded past: the box springs and bed frames, the rocking chair, the lamps, the bedroom drawers still stuffed with clothes.
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Tesla still boasts many advantages — the free charging for many of its customers through its 440-station charging network is a security blanket for long-distance travelers, and its customers continue to be enthusiastic brand ambassadors — but it has shown some vulnerabilities.
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American experts have argued for years that Europeans can afford to have broader social programs that produce comfortable lives for their citizens partly because they spend so much less on militaries knowing they live under the security blanket of the United States.
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But whereas we intuitively grasp that, like a camera, procedure allows the artist to remain detached, at arm's length, we need reminders that, also like a camera, procedure can allow the artist to draw closer to difficult material through the security blanket of mechanical method.
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The US serves as the ultimate security blanket, preventing these countries from having to build up their own armaments and thus risk a replay of World War I. But if American alliance commitments become and remain less credible, it's possible this order could crack up.
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In that strip, Linus, an artist and the most sensitive of the "Peanuts" gang (and who carries a security blanket as a preacher carries a Bible), writes a letter asking for succor from the Great Pumpkin as another might ask for succor from Santa or Jesus.
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Mr. Wilder played the security-blanket-clutching accountant Leo Bloom, who discovers how to make more money on a bad Broadway show than on a good one: Find rich backers, stage a production that's guaranteed to fold fast, then flee the country with the leftover cash.
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While I've moved on from the worst parts of my teenage years, I still carry this with me like a security blanket, knowing full well we are conditioned to suppress or sometimes fully abandon the parts of ourselves we nurtured with intense devotion in our younger years.
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Alexander VindmanAlexander VindmanPresident Trump's intelligence community security blanket Whistleblower's lawyer questions GOP senator's whistleblower protection caucus membership White House limits number of officials allowed to listen to Trump calls with foreign leaders: report MORE, as being guilty of dual loyalty to Ukraine after he volunteered to testify in the House impeachment inquiry.
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"Bad summer news for risk assets: QE security blanket for markets has vanished ... investors targeting weak credit stories; emerging markets now in tightening cycle and ECB (who else?) threatening a QE taper policy mistake in autumn," the bank's analysts wrote, adding they remained defensive and happy to sell risk assets into strength until the Fed was forced to pause.
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A lot of weirdness around Trump and Russia, I argued, had a more normal explanation — he had made business deals with Russians, he still harbors a 1980s-era vision of superpower cooperation, and as a foreign-policy neophyte he clutched the idea of détente like a security blanket even as the Russians separately made moves to help him win.
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"For them, this comes down to: The only way to keep the United States engaged in the region, and provide a security blanket for Saudis and Israelis ... is to make sure Iran is not normalized through this set of international and regional agreements," Hussein Banai, an expert on US-Iran relations at Indiana University Bloomington, tells me.
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Here's this week's briefing: North Korea summit: Peer pressure Mr. President, you will be under pressure from all sides to proceed with a summit with Kim Jong Un. North Korea: The totalitarian regime will try to keep summit prospects warm because Kim probably believes he can get some economic relief, a reputational bump and a security blanket if he keeps negotiations ongoing.
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One of the things I'd always disliked about cooking were the rules, but I came to see the rules as a kind of security blanket, and once I became more comfortable, I realized that the only true rules were the ones you made for yourself — you could go as gonzo as you wanted, though you might be stuck eating the results.
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Such "analysis" is security-blanket fantasy masquerading as realism, reminiscent of the denial behavior of Western elites before World War II. Impoverished but heavily armed North Korea and North Vietnam — economic pygmies compared to the United States — proved that even the vastly superior U.S. economic power is no guarantee of peace and does not automatically translate into military superiority and victory.
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Her vocal coach, Eric Vetro, told the New York Post that it was a challenge at first for Zellweger to adjust to singing while wearing the teeth, but eventually she warmed up to them: Zellweger told Vanity Fair that the false teeth even served as a security blanket during some of her live performances, which triggered very real stage fright.
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There's good news out there for anyone clinging to their BlackBerry Classic like a silicon security blanket: BlackBerry has announced that it will be supporting its BB10 operating system for at least another two years, giving yet another stay of execution to the long-defunct OS. Released way back in 2012, the BlackBerry 10 operating system was BlackBerry's last great hope for creating a modern smartphone platform.
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Combined with the programming on Fox News and stories from Trump-friendly outlets like Rasmussen Reports, which publishes a daily tracking poll of the president's approval ratings that is typically several percentage points higher than other surveys, the conservative media is wrapping Mr. Trump and his supporters in a security blanket of their own facts, data points and story lines about the Ukraine controversy.
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Alexander VindmanAlexander VindmanBolton backs officials called in House impeachment hearing President Trump's intelligence community security blanket Whistleblower's lawyer questions GOP senator's whistleblower protection caucus membership MORE, Bill Taylor, the former top U.S. diplomat to Ukraine and former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie YovanovitchMarie YovanovitchEvangelical groups lobbied Pompeo to fire Yovanovitch in 2018 Pavlich: The Senate defends its integrity Giuliani: Trump should 'absolutely, 100 percent' keep investigating Biden MORE, the outlet reported.
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But on a macro level, a lot of Asian Americans who want to pursue a creative field don't have the same security blanket that an upper middle-class white kid who comes from generations of wealth and college degrees might have, and because of that financial and psychic insecurity, Asian Americans might be more likely to make sure they have a backup in case "being a writer" doesn't work out.
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"When it came to economic issues -- and, to be frank, even beyond -- he was our security blanket," one senior Republican aide said, pointing to active back channels between Capitol Hill and Cohn on policy issues, and a willingness, whether real or perceived, to effectively present congressional GOP concerns to a president whose policy positions and governing style many walking the halls of the Capitol still haven't quite figured out.
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Some have fought back, such as former Director of National Intelligence Dan CoatsDaniel (Dan) Ray CoatsRod Rosenstein joins law and lobbying firm DHS issues bulletin warning of potential Iranian cyberattack President Trump's intelligence community security blanket MORE, who publicly rebuked the president after the 2018 Helsinki summit where the president said, during a news conference with Russian President Vladimir PutinVladimir Vladimirovich PutinPutin, Xi more trusted than Trump worldwide: poll Brent Budowsky: Bloomberg should give billion to Democrats Pavlich: Soleimani's death should be an American celebration MORE, that he took Putin's word regarding allegations of election interference.
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