Word: companionship
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...least five seniors have a chance to "get a firm toe-hold on the educational ladder; to work among the Tlingit Indians, and to enjoy pleasant social intellectual companionship with people of superior intellect," the University of South East Alaska announced yesterday...
Army policy requires that Puerto Ricans and KATOUSA be dispersed through squads and platoons alongside continental Americans, rather than placed in separate units. The results in enforced understanding and companionship are often good and warming. But the language difficulty is serious. The result at the front is that squad and platoon leaders must communicate with their men in an awkward mishmash of straight American, pidgin talk and sign language, with occasional help from the few interpreters at hand. All this forwards the brotherhood of man. But it can be tough on night patrol in the cold wastelands between the lines...
...women in one's room. Any red-blooded Harvard student, University Hall believes, spends the hours from 1 to 4 messing around in the laboratory, studying in the library, or rushing about furiously in some form of athletic endeavor. No normal male should even think of seeking female companionship at that time...
When Charles Dickens was twelve, his spendthrift father was thrown in debtors' prison and little Charles was put to work in a shoe-polish factory. "No words," he wrote 25 years later, "can express the secret agony of my soul as I sunk into this companionship ... I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a little vagabond...
...profitable and understandable. But not when other factors, important in their own way, must be sacrificed. Are these men so selfish that they can go merrily on their way, content in their way of life while their wives are unhappy? These executives didn't marry for love and companionship; they wanted only topnotch housekeepers, who are supposed to run the house, manage the servants, raise the children in a proper fashion, dress well, be good hostesses, and present themselves to the world as happy little women...