Word: companions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Normal" Inflation. Inflation has long been a companion to economic boom...
...Pogo, Walt Kelly's pseudo-sophisticated comic strip, spoke a kind of Pig-Russian and bore an unmistakable resemblance to Nikita Khrushchev. He even talked like Khrushchev. "You forget prominent Russian proverb!" he confided to his companion, a bearded, cigar-smoking goat with a remarkable resemblance to Fidel Castro: "The shortage will be divided among the peasants." The goat broke out lunch-cigars and sugar ("One thing my country got like the dickens! Is sugar! y tabacos!")-and the two settled down to a dialectical argument in dialect...
...walk into the woods," a lecherous old man tells a female companion, "and I'll show you where the butterflies make butter...
...Toko-ri) Seaton, Traitor describes how Erickson (William Holden) was shanghaied into espionage by the Allies, how he made "business trips" to Germany and reported what he saw and heard, how he came to hate the Nazis and to like his work, how he fell in love with a companion in espionage (Lilli Palmer), how he was betrayed by a nasty Nazi schoolboy but was rescued and smuggled to Sweden...
Easy Cliches. To help his brain make the switch from one conversation to another, the partygoer unconsciously does some lip reading of his companion's chatter from the corner of his eye while one ear is ranging around. Even if three conversations are being fired at his brain at once, say the scientists, the listener can still select the most interesting one by turning his head to varying angles, thus subtly altering the relative time delays of each source as it reaches his ear. One reason the brain can work so efficiently at cocktail parties, says Dr. Cherry...