Word: companioner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...world's tallest radio humorist, could abide the rural Midwest only in memory. Much of his audience had made the same journey, or nearly, and we loved to be persuaded, as we listened on public radio each Saturday to the extraordinary two-hour variety show called A Prairie Home Companion, that we had the same rueful recollections, maybe even the same peculiar second cousins...
Perhaps the most confusing phenomenon of all is the discovery of a glowing companion to the supernova that is 100 times as bright as Sanduleak had been. Scientists are frankly stumped by its appearance. Two teams of astronomers, from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and London's Imperial College, both using a technique known as optical speckle interferometry (quickly dubbed "that speckled thing"), fed data from telescopic observations into computers. What emerged was a composite picture that confounded everyone. Said Woosley: "It's easier to say what it isn't than what it is. It wasn't there before...
After one last glorious, hammy program, Garrison Keillor shuts down his unique, beloved radio show, A Prairie Home Companion...
Wilson's year at Parkway West was not just a Back to the Future nostalgia trip. Her constant companion was a video camera, and she is now assembling her footage into a 30- to 45-minute videotape for the class of '87. Parkway West is just one of a growing number of schools that have discovered a new twist on a venerable senior-year tradition: the video yearbook...
...Although the Iran-contra hearings are not directly concerned with Eatsco's operations, committee investigators have privately interviewed Shirley Brill, a former CIA administrator and companion of Clines'. Brill informed the investigators last week that Clines told her that Wilson, Secord, Shackley and Erich von Marbod, a former Defense Department official, were partners with him in Eatsco. Von Marbod, who retired from the Pentagon in 1981 at the same time that the Eatsco inquiry began, has not been implicated in the Iran-contra scandal...