Word: companionship
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...private plane, given him a $75-a-month allowance, promised him a $25,000-a-year job in the family ironworks. "Werner's influence," the suit contends, "destroyed the natural affection the son had for his parents" and deprived them of "their only hopes for solace, affection, companionship and comfort during their declining years...
With the warmth and companionship of her husband, Crip, she is guarding two shine white eggs--the embodied hopes of the world's remaining 28 whooping cranes. But Josephine, oh Josephine, beware the avaricious owl and the rapacious rats who murdered your babe last year. Let your keepers continue their 24 hour guard, let them burn the floodlights brightly, and let them keep the ditch around your cage filled with rat poison...
Since Yale is a "more centrifugally oriented community," he said, it would offer the Harvard student "the stimulation of more companionship" than he is accustomed to in the apparently less friendly environs of Cambridge. Other advantages of the plan mentioned by Weiss were the "different attitude at Yale toward sports and extra-curricular activities," and "the chance to renew old high school friendships...
...spelled out in some detail by Free-Lance Writer Roma Rudd Turkel in Information, a monthly publication of the Paulist Fathers. The church, she writes, "knows that it is impossible (not improbable but impossible) for a boy and a girl to be alone together in an intimate and exclusive companionship for any length of time without serious sin. And she has seen the tragic pattern shaping up Saturday night after Saturday night in parish churches across the country; these boys and girls start making bad confessions, then no confessions, followed by no sacraments, no Mass, finally no faith...
Delinquent life in Cambridge centers around the gang and the street corner. Driven out of the home by an unpleasant family situation, the typical Cambridge delinquent finds companionship and prestige as a member of the gang. Within the gang itself, he may also gain prestige as a leader. This post usually falls to the boy who can outfight his contemporaries...