Word: companion
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...Wilson is missing one companion, Foster, whom he calls his "little brother." Last summer, Foster was shot dead in a street next to the Moorlands Estate, apparently attempting to mediate a dispute about a stolen piece of jewelry. Wilson thinks everyone in his area faces similar dangers. "You could be walking down the street and suddenly you're shot and nobody knows why you've died," he says. "It used to be just the top dogs that had guns. Now a 14-year-old might pull...
...after Lieberman whispered a correction. In Downing Street, Lieberman also flanked the veteran Senator, along with another member of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina. Lieberman and Graham said little - and what they did say was in praise of their "plain-speaking" companion McCain - but they enunciated their few words clearly. McCain's voice, by contrast, proved too soft to withstand the gusts of a blustery London day. Journalists who normally hover behind the banks of TV cameras and photographers during press conferences held on the private street outside 10 Downing Street could...
MICHELLE WILLIAMS, former companion of Heath Ledger and mother of their 2-year-old daughter, in her first public statement since Ledger's death...
...Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) on the south side, and though I was not supposed to read newspapers, I knew who Obama was from the signs in the windows and the front-page articles I glimpsed on porches while I knocked on doors. When my companion and I saw Obama in person, we stopped him and shook his hand. The first question he asked was, “Are you from Utah...
...years old. Thinking that I should be productively occupied over the school holidays, my father arranged for me to work as a copy boy at Hong Kong's English-language paper of record, the South China Morning Post. He did this through his sometime drinking companion - the paper's most famous and influential writer, Kevin Sinclair...