Word: companionships
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...with a house, with a car, without an old lady). "To our old folks, all this proves shocking, depressing and downright exasperating," observes Professor Soichi Nasu, a sociologist at Tokyo's Chuo University, who specializes in the problems of old age. "Just like their ancestors, they had anticipated companionship and support from their children, only to discover that the foundation had crumbled...
...Life on the Common," say the authors, "Is an experience of tedium, movement in aimless revolutions around the memorial pedestal, from which Lincoln surveys the new emancipation." There are a few rewards--easy sex, dope, and companionship. But people stay mostly because no matter how bad life is in Cambridge, It's better than what they have just left. Which is, usually, a broken home with no money about, or an alcoholic father who forced you to dress like a baby and fed you strong tranquilizers so you'd up. Or no home whatsoever...
...called "Eight Additional Rules" for troop conduct included "Put back the doors you use for bedboards" and "Don't bathe in the sight of women." One nagging personnel problem was the German agent known as Li Teh, who annoyed Chou by his "need for female companionship," yet was so big that "small and thin women could not put up with him." Eventually he was fobbed off with a stout girl named Hsiao-until she deserted during the march...
...child who wants more mature companionship there's Play 'N Jane: it plays ticktacktoe, horseshoes or a primitive form of basketball whenever its human counterpart flips an activating switch. Randi Reader sits holding a book, and at the touch of a button proceeds to read 15 nursery rhymes, her blue eyes gazing intently at the page...
They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to one another till death. But England belonged to them. That, besides companionship, was their reward. Her air and sky were theirs, not the timorous millionaires who own stuffy little boxes but never their own souls...