Word: companion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, most did need direction trying to sort out hand-offs, pass patterns, zone defenses and blocking assignments. "There's so much going on, I'm finding it hard to figure out which bit of it to watch," one fan said to a companion. "Yes," his friend replied. "I'm having the same problem with the cheerleaders...
...miles offshore and 15 ft. to 140 ft. down the steeply sloping bottom lie the remains, partly enveloped in coral, of the Boussole and the Astrolabe, the flagship and companion frigate of one of France's greatest 18th century navigators, Count Jean Francois de la Perouse. Louis XVI had dispatched the aristocrat to the Pacific in 1785, hoping that his discoveries would rival those of British Explorer Captain James Cook. As Louis was led to the guillotine eight years later, he supposedly inquired, "Has there been any news of La Perouse?" Each morning 20 divers from a multinational team...
...Friday and the commuters crowding into the Central Square station had spent the past three hours dreaming of going home. Amidst the suits and briefcases sticky with sweat, a tall teenager and shorter companion stood, watching and waiting. When the moment was right, they seized it, slipping halfway under the turnstile, seemingly unnoticed by the people they were using as their cover. But the older one was too tall, or too lethargic from the heat. The token seller spotted him, wriggling through a pair of pinstriped legs...
...paid, hey man, I paid, you saw me pay, didn't you?" the boy appealed to his younger friend. "Man, you're just doing this 'cause we're Black. This isn't fair." His companion smiled charmingly at the ticket seller and said in a tone, perhaps meant to remind her of her own son, "Aw com'on, it's hot. Our mother wants us home. Don't make us walk." But the ticket seller held her ground and the older boy started screaming again...
...birth of pointillist painting. Commodore Perry's opening of Japan to the West. A murderous barber and his woman companion who cooks the victims in pies. A bitter show-biz story of financial rise and moral fall--told chronologically backwards. The ruin of marriages. The disappointments of infidelity. The decline of the chorus-girl kick line as a metaphor for the loss of American innocence...