Word: companioner
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...ordinary formal, this. The experience began as my companion and I came in sight of the Eliot tower, shining brilliantly under a bright and extensive collection of flood lights--which must also make for an equally impressive electric bill. (This is my theory on Eliot's traditionally dreary Green Cup performance. After all, this is the house which protested the abolition of paper cups in the dining hall...
...never doubted we would make it," declared 50-year-old Ken Torp. Along with one companion, Torp fought his way to a trading post after five days in the wilderness. "It was just a question of how ugly and how nasty and how difficult and how uncomfortable it was going to be, and how many fingers we would freeze on the way." The three other lost skiers were found by a search party...
Rarely seen carried around a mere three years ago, notebook computers, those which weigh between three and eight pounds, have become a popular companion of the frequent traveler or industrious note taking student...
Bill Moyers avoids both extremes in a five-part PBS series premiering this week called Healing and the Mind and in a companion book that has already hit the best-seller lists. Level-headed, curious and skeptical, Moyers is the perfect tour guide. His question: Are our emotional lives entirely separate from our physical lives, or can one affect the other? To some degree, the latter is obviously true. Under mental stress, the heart rate climbs, and muscles tense. Conversely, breathing deeply and relaxing muscles can calm the mind...
...macho tough guy is supposed to act sensitive. He's expected to get in touch with his feminine side on a romantic night out without feeling like he looks really stupid. (Sometimes he'll succeed, sometimes he won't. His companion will know the difference...