Word: companioner
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...travel companion, Dyer is a lively raconteur, the kind of person you'd want to journey with even if the destination was a nihilistic hell. His stories are peppered with amusing asides and deft observations, not just from him but his fellow travelers: "What a strangely consistent country this is," remarks his girlfriend about a Cambodian river that because of flooding, reverses its current twice a year. "Even the river lacks a clear sense of direction." Oddly, Dyer's narrative also loses its sense of direction in the final chapter, just as he reaches what he has described throughout...
...June. According to regional intelligence sources familiar with the events, Azahari and another suspect in the Bali blasts were tracked down to a town in southern Sumatra. Alerted that something was wrong when police moved in to arrest a third JI suspect in the same town, Azahari and his companion fled, escaping moments before the police arrived. That narrow miss could have grave consequences. "Commanders like Azahari are the dangerous ones," says a senior regional intelligence official. "If we can get Azahari and maybe seven or eight others like him?cut off the head of the beast?then the ordinary...
...month before his death, Rawls became the second living philosopher to have a Cambridge Companion volume published...
Charlie—the petite and well-kept mutt that accompanies the psychology concentrator and film actor on jaunts through the Square and its environs—is an unusual companion at a college where most students are forbidden to keep pets...
When the local newspaper later ran a picture of Law announcing his visit to the island, John realized who his sailing companion had been and called up the bishop to apologize...