Word: companion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just after noon on Sunday, two P.F.L.P. agents boarded El Al Flight 219 at Amsterdam. They were Leila Khaled. 24. a stunning Palestinian ex-schoolteacher, and a male companion, still unidentified. In her brassière Leila carried two hand grenades. She had become a guerrilla heroine in August 1969, when she helped hijack a TWA Boeing 707 to Damascus Airport, where a bomb demolished the cockpit after the passengers and crew had debarked. Later she wrote to several passengers on the flight, explaining that the Popular Front was trying to strike at America's Middle East policy and that...
McCowen's philanthropist is a companion to Molière's misanthrope. Just as his philology leads him to like all words, regardless of meaning, his philanthropy leads him to like all people, regardless of individuality. In McCowen's characterization, the eager grin fades into a rictus of terror that others may not like him; the mildness is a mask for inadequacy. He is so nice that it hurts-himself and everyone around...
...combat," as Lois Hart wrote to the New York Times, "oppression at the hands of their straight sisters. They bravely talk about liberating themselves from dehumanizing sexual-role definitions, but then employ the same odious treatment in dealing with women who have found a sexual, emotional and spiritual companion in another woman...
...three guns, among several Miss Davis has purchased in recent years, were brought to the Marin courthouse by Jonathan Jackson, 17, who died in the ensuing shootout. For some time the boy had been a frequent companion of Angela, often traveling with her as she raised money and organized the legal defense for the "Soledad Three." The three are blacks accused of killing a guard in a Soledad, Calif., prison, whose case has been made a cause Célè by the black militant community. The youthful Jackson had more than an ideological interest in the Soledad Three...
...recent cartoon in a Belgian newspaper showed King Baudouin eagerly clasping the hand of Bicycle Racer Eddy Merckx. In the surrounding crowd, one spectator is seen asking a companion: "Hey, who's that fellow shaking hands with Eddy...