Word: companion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...malevolent members of THRUSH, which stands for bads and is an international organization "with no allegiance to any country or ideal." Last week THRUSH was trying to assassinate the Premier of a new African nation, who was visiting a nuclear chemical plant near Washington. Napoleon Solo and a female companion (Patricia Crowley) in a spangled evening dress tried to prevent the killing and were soon being boiled like lobsters in live steam from the reactor. If all this sounds like the late Ian Fleming, it is. Fleming, while only fleetingly a consultant, was in spirit the creator of the series...
...nation, but privileges accorded the archbishops of Cyprus by 5th century Byzantine Emperor Zeno as his tribute to one of Christendom's most ancient strongholds. It was jt only a dozen years after Jesus' death that the apostle Paul brought Christianity to Cyprus, and Paul's companion, Barnabas, became the island's first bishop and patron saint. In 431, the Council of Ephesus awarded self-government to the church in Cyprus, and its archbishop ranked fifth in Orthodoxy's rigid hierarchy, after the patriarchs of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem...
...physically deformed, an achondroplastic with legs like sewer mains and untenanted circles for eyes. Instead of parents, she has a fabulously wealthy foster father who dependably defaults whenever she needs him most. Nor has he ever given her an extra dime. Violence is her companion: in one three-month period, 75 acts of murder or mayhem were committed within her ken. But Little Orphan Annie is insulated against all misfortune by one priceless possession: eternal youth. This month in 350 newspapers all over the world, Annie reaches her 40th birthday looking no older than when she was born...
...fact that population is growing five times as fast as food production in Asia. The output of food is actually dropping in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, South Korea, Iran and Nepal. The average Asian eats little more than he did in 1939, and hunger is a constant gnawing companion of about one in four. At present rates, food output in the area will rise only 5% during the next decade, but the U.N. figures that it must increase about 60% if Asians are to eat enough...
Riding home through rain-soaked Washington in his Justice Department limousine one evening last week, Attorney General Robert Kennedy turned to a companion, said matter-of-factly: "I don't think there is much future for me in this city...