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Word: companionably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They stood side by side, equals and friends and newsmakers, the aspirant to a jumbo settlement and the journalist turned dispenser of social eclat. While ordinary footsore reporters waited outside a restaurant for crumbs of comment, Mizz Liz sailed in to console Ivana in the guise of boon companion, swapped expressions of abiding misery, then hurried out to whip intimate confidences into a souffle of salaciousness and scandal. Not that Ivana felt betrayed -- the whole friendship, like nearly every friendship between gossips and the gossiped-about, was based on mutual exploitation, an exchange of private trust before an audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gossip: Pssst...Did You Hear About? | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

When asked which fraternity they were going to, Sara A. Miller answers "one with men." Her companion, who is sitting in the back stairwell gives her name only as "Emily" replies, "the one with Greek letters that postered." They said that Harvard parties tend not to poster, so students looking for something definite tend...

Author: By Rebecca A. Jeschke, | Title: Enduring a Boring Trip For City's Excitement | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

...magnificent colleague," said Leon Kirschner, a prominent Harvard music professor who retired last year. "She is an extraordinary teacher and a wonderful companion...

Author: By Grace Fan, | Title: Veteran Teacher Leaves Music Dept. | 2/8/1990 | See Source »

Marius says he estimates that A Writer's Companion is used in 400 schools nationwide, and that he earns a $1.85 royalty on each $15 copy sold...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Writing the Text to Fit the Course--and Vice-Versa | 2/1/1990 | See Source »

Several of the University's first-year expository writing courses use texts by Expos Director Richard Marius. But Marius says he asks Expos teachers not to let him know if they plan to assign either of the books, A Writer's Companion and A Short Guide to Writing About History, in their sections...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Writing the Text to Fit the Course--and Vice-Versa | 2/1/1990 | See Source »

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