Word: companion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...statement, Myerson, 62, announced that she is taking a 90-day unpaid leave from her $83,000-a-year job during a special city probe of her activities. Myerson also disclosed that she is the subject of a federal grand jury investigation into the activities of her companion, City Contractor Carl Capasso. Capasso, 41, was indicted the next day on charges that he evaded paying $774,600 in corporate and personal taxes...
...press conference some three hours after touchdown, Rutan, a former Air Force lieutenant colonel, said he felt wobbly, but declared elatedly, "Life is an opportunity. It's only limited by what you can dream about." Said Yeager, Rutan's companion for the past six years: "We got rest but not a lot of sleep." The flight, she added, "was a lot more difficult than we ever imagined...
...most innovative designers, is president of his own firm, Rutan Aircraft Factory; Dick is a gaunt and prickly pilot par excellence, much decorated for his 325 combat missions in Viet Nam, who had been chafing as a test flyer for his younger brother; Yeager, Dick's constant companion, is a shy, petite former engineering-design draftsman who holds nine world flight records after just ten years at the controls. (She is no relation to Test Pilot Chuck Yeager, who went out of his way to belittle the mission in a quote to U.P.I.: "The Voyager is old technology...
...Instead you'd rather eat torts, eh? I know your type," says the Other waving the ladle at his companion. "Have a little faith! Remember Shaw said: `Where there's danger, there's hope.' I don't know what he meant by it, but he wasn't a lawyer, that's for sure...
...does not crop up too often in serious fiction. Victrola recounts a day in the life of a man named Bundy and the dog he inherited when an upstairs neighbor died. As he runs his errands, Bundy notices that other dogs no longer pay any attention to his faithful companion: "One by one, as Bundy's dog grew older, the younger ones ignored him. He might have been a stuffed animal leashed to a parking meter. The human parallel was too disturbing for Bundy to dwell on it." But dwell on it he does: "Impersonally appraised, in terms of survival...