Word: companion
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...Soviet Union, I was strolling around Moscow with a university teacher whom I was interviewing. As we walked, on a bright blue September Sunday, I noticed that the people we passed were staring at me--lots of people, with a sort of scientific intensity. I asked my companion, Did I look so different from ordinary Russians that I stood out as an object of curiosity? She responded almost blithely, "You don't look afraid. Americans don't look afraid...
...single or widowed grandparents, a grandchild can fill the need for a traveling companion. In recent years, Luella Kramer's husband has been too ill to travel with her. Last year the 76-year-old from Holden, Mass., considered a Kenya tour, she says, "but I thought, 'It's not much fun looking at the African moon with a bunch of ladies.' Then I thought, 'I could go with Jeff!'" Jeff, 12, of Ashland, Mass., jumped at the chance to see zebras and monkeys on the Grandtravel Safari. Luella enjoyed it so much that this past summer she took Jeff...
Stints in a tiny New York City apartment with her Spanish grandmother and wildly unstable uncles bookended 16 months on an extravagant and expansive sugarcane plantation in Cuba, where her grandmother worked as a companion to a wealthy relative, and where, Fox says, “no one said my name for hours at a time.” Fox’s parents repeatedly sent for her through the years, from Martha’s Vineyard, Florida and ultimately California, providing her with a few glamorous days only to pass her off on yet another friend or relative...
Zorba, Kander and Ebb’s musical comedy based on the novel which became an Academy Award-winning film, tells the story of a larger-than-life Greek (Zorba) and his traveling companion (Nikos...
...also think twice before crowning him. By last Monday, Giuliani had made up his mind that the city couldn't get by without him. He decided to persuade the state legislature to overturn term limits, and to seek a third term on the Conservative Party ballot. Friends, especially his companion Judith Nathan, had convinced him that voters were so grateful they wouldn't mind messing with the electoral laws. But just before his press conference that day, other voices intruded. His friend John McCain warned that the effort to change the rules would diminish Giuliani, make him just another politician...