Word: companionably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handsome Princess Liliane, having been shunted from a lead car to a back car and then to a lead car again, seemed about to suffer from "diplomatic illness" on the big day, but was finally content with limousine No. 4 and ex-King Umberto of Italy as her companion...
...elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for the first of three terms. He made a House name for himself in hard-digging committee investigations, e.g., of Race-Baiter Gerald L. K. Smith, of food-rationing abuses during World War II. In 1945 President Harry Truman, a poker companion of Anderson's, named him Secretary of Agriculture, succeeding Henry A. Wallace. Serving at that post until 1948, Anderson was a staunch advocate of flexible farm supports, has stuck steadfastly to that position ever since, won the gratitude of the Eisenhower Administration for his support of Ezra Taft Benson. Elected...
...week, when its hands stood at 11 o'clock and its sonorous bell, nicknamed Big Ben after Sir Benjamin, boomed the hour (in E below middle C), Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and other parliamentary dignitaries gathered to tender happy 100th anniversary greetings to Big Ben and its dependable companion...
...marvelous trainer of intellects." Before long, they were playing pinball machines together, going to un-adult westerns, and scaling the roofs over the student dens, with the great intellect-trainer booming out Ol' Man River in a beery baritone. Here, felt Simone, was "the dream companion I had longed for since I was 15: he was the double in whom I found all my burning aspirations raised to the pitch of incandescence...
...been a long time coming, and to Halleck an agonizingly hard time. Whipped by a furious ambition, he has shaped his life toward national political leadership. Time and again he suffered setbacks. At one point, frustrated beyond endurance, he withdrew from his friends, took on Scotch as his closest companion, even talked of quitting Congress. Yet in the ambition that drives him and in the absolute determination not to fail again lies the key to Charlie Halleck's success as legislative leader...