Word: companioner
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Across the breezeway in the combination parlor-bedroom where L.B.J. was born, a small fan whirs insignificantly in the stifling midday heat. A pregnant woman, wilting outside her air-conditioned car turns to a companion and whispers, "Imagine going into labor in this heat." On a nearby wall hangs a narrative, "A President Is Born," written by Rebekah Baines Johnson and recalling "the sharp, compelling cry" in the room as "the first child of Sam Ealy and Rebekah Johnson was 'discovering America...
Just as Dubček frequently found himself in the watchful company of the Soviet ambassador while in Turkey, so Anna was in the constant charge of the ambassador's wife. The wife of one Western ambassador recalls that when Anna paid her first official call, this uninvited "companion" sat, silent but attentive, through the visit. When the Western diplomat's wife repaid the call at the Czechoslovak embassy, she discovered the Soviet ambassador's wife sitting in a room within earshot of the main salon...
...gripped by an anxiety that is not caused by war, inflation or recession ?important as those issues are. Across the U.S., the universal fear of violent crime and vicious strangers?armed robbers, packs of muggers, addict burglars ready to trade a life for heroin?is a constant companion of the populace. It is the cold fear of dying at random in a brief spasm of senseless violence?for a few pennies, for nothing...
...close companion pieces to the Bick are the Waldorf and the Red Caboose. I didn't tell you the location because both are closed: the Red Caboose is gone forever, leaving only an empty place in my heart. It went broke because it was on jinx corner (Winthrop St. and Mass Ave.). The Waldorf is closed temporarily "to open again with a more modern restaurant." Fat chance...
...most of the time, I wasn't thinking about who was good and who was bad. I was thinking about my quiet companion. When Tinsley got out of bed on whatever day it happened, did he think that he might be killed before he might sleep again? Did it happen quickly or did he have time to lie there and think how rotten it all was? Was it a hand grenade, a shelling, a bullet, a knife? What put Tinsley around my neck...