Word: companion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a 4,000-lb. bomb load. Suddenly, standing the plane on its nose, Captain Dzung swoops down, releases a 500-lb. bomb and pulls adroitly out of the dive. After several more runs, the FAC radios: "Very nice. Hundred percent of the bombs were on target." To a companion in the cockpit, Captain Dzung says: "Oh, we do that every...
...were conspicuous enough there would be no doubt if he pointed a finger in your direction that you were being singled out. He shot a finger toward one of the two girls standing in front of me. She nearly fell. "Did you see that?" she shrieked to her companion. "He was looking at me. At me!" Damn it, I thought. If they hadn't been in the way, he would have been singling...
...last summer's bloody Marin County courthouse shootout (TIME, Aug. 24). A onetime member of the Black Panther Party, she often traveled the state raising money and organizing the defense of the Soledad Three, a trio of blacks accused of killing a California prison guard. A frequent companion, Jonathan Jackson, was a leader in the courthouse kidnap attempt...
...latent schizophrenia of the university.... I've seen University of Hartford police escort Panthers off the campus for distributing literature. Now they're inviting these people in." A woman YAF staffer walked resolutely through the lounge, avoiding the long-haired students. "We've been invaded," she said to a companion. "We shall handle that accordingly...
...Force Comet that took off from a base in England last week and streaked through the night toward the Continent. Aboard the plane was Leila Khaled, 24, the Palestinian guerrilla who attempted to skyjack an El Al airliner over Britain last month. Her mission failed and a male companion was killed, but three other planes were skyjacked by guerrillas that day and their crews and passengers taken hostage. Now, in a strange postscript to terror, the last of those hostages were being exchanged for Leila and six other Palestinian guerrillas...