Word: companion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shuttle tragedy left its mark in some unexpected places. The New Yorker magazine, for example, had to stop its presses to change a cartoon in last week's issue in which a man seated on a barstool tells his companion, "I wish they'd shoot my congressman into space!" For all but the earliest copies of the magazine, the caption was rewritten to say, "I used to be a warm human being, but now, I'm sorry to say, I'm a bit of a swine...
...this hedonistic mindset lasts only as long as the ephemeral elements that cause it. As I ran, snowball in hand, amid fellow frolicking freshmen, I heard an alarming piece of conversation. "Are you taking Chem 20?" queried one snowball thrower of his companion. When I realized that the classwide fun and games in the Yard would soon give way to individual quests for second semester success, the veil of frost glazing my vision quickly cleared...
...must see those planes all the time," says her companion. "Do the jets always fly over Sunset Park...
...steps of an abandoned courthouse a group of young men give Maria the once-over. She does not look up. Two boys are fighting over a bike at the corner of her street. She calls to one of them, who responds cagily, trying to determine if her walking companion...
EXPECTING. Tatum O'Neal, 22, grownup child actress (Paper Moon, Little Darlings); and her companion John McEnroe, 26, splenetic tennis star, now serving a 21-day suspension from professional competition for incurring more than $7,500 this year in bad-conduct fines. After weeks of denying rumors, McEnroe told the Los Angeles Herald Examiner that he was "proud of" his impending fatherhood. The couple has not set a wedding date...