Word: companion
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...After an hour's searching, Richards and his companion, a local hunter, found the source: a "warty brown blob" squatting on moss in a patch of nettles. When he reached over and gently took hold of the blob, it twisted viciously in a very unfroglike manner and bit him on the hand. "I was shocked," he says. "Frogs don't normally bite you. There's only one other frog in P.N.G. that does that." The animal's bite, coupled with its unique cry and strange appearance, told Richards he had snared a place in the zoological textbooks with the discovery...
...does. Actually, I have a bit of sympathy for the court on what to call gay relationships. I was never certain what to call my boyfriend of eight years - ick, ?boyfriend.? I?m 35, not 15. But ?partner? sounds clinical, ?lover? sounds too ?70s and ?longtime companion? sounds pathetic, evoking two old queens in cardigans watching Bette Davis movies...
...filming a PBS sequel to “African American Lives.” In “Oprah’s Roots,” Gates will teach audiences how to trace their own family trees as he traces Oprah Winfrey’s family background. The companion book, “Finding Oprah’s Roots: Building an African-American Family Tree,” will be available in February.“I feel that what makes Gates so special is his ability to collaborate with the best and the brightest from Wole Soyinka, to Lawrence...
...been nabbed five times. The first time, a few teenagers stole three dollars from the box, but they were apprehended by the police.Another time, a woman pretended to give a dollar, but actually stole one from his box. Zhou grabbed her and insisted she return the dollar. Her male companion started yelling at Zhou and insisted that she did not take anything. Zhou relented and let the woman get away with his dollar.The worst theft occurred when “a bald white guy,” as Zhou described the man, grabbed the box and fled...
...hist-and-lit concentrators migrated to the Thompson Room of the Barker Center, where the alcohol was free flowing and the conversation esoteric. “I’ve been writing about the same thing for so long!” laughed one middle-aged alumnus to her companion, referring to her new book and its similarity to her senior thesis. Theses seemed to be a running joke among fellow grads. Just an hour earlier, Nicholas B. Lemann ’76 had asked the panel audience if he could “self-flagellate regarding my thesis...