Word: companionship
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...cities, neighbors do not know one another, and pride themselves on the fact. But the pride rings hollow. The big-city crowd offers the worst of both worlds. In its jostling closeness, it robs its members of privacy-but in its anonymity, it does not give them companionship in exchange...
...Dirt!" Characteristically, Meredith had invited neither the companionship nor the moral support of civil rights Establishmentarians; only half a dozen personal friends were at his side. But by the time he got to De Soto County across the Mississippi-Tennessee border, there was a small entourage of newsmen, along with some 15 Mississippi state troopers, sheriff's deputies...
...explanation was offered by Psychiatrist John P. Shovlin, superintendent of the state hospital where Hollenbaugh had been confined. Recalling him as a typically "shy, meek" schizophrenic who "was always retreating," Shovlin noted: "These people find it painful to associate with people of their own age. They sometimes seek the companionship of someone much younger...
...refuses to be seen carrying a guidebook. If he has one at all, he leaves it in the hotel room or disguises it in the dust-jacket of the latest Taylor Caldwell novel. But he is the exception. The great majority of tourists want their guidebooks for advice, companionship and a sense of security...
...alltime high. Not only were accidents more numerous, but they cost more; a smashed windshield, which 15 years ago would have cost $45 to repair, now involves as much as $145. In one injury case, a Michigan jury awarded a husband $9,537.30 for the loss of services and companionship of his wife, even though he outlived her by only seven days after an auto accident and was unconscious all of that time...