Word: consort
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Several times a week a bus stopped at his shelter and unloaded men newly released from prison. Studies have estimated that 30% to 50% of big-city parolees are homeless. Sanders was surrounded by the very people his parole conditions forbid him to consort with. But parole also demands that he have an address, even if it's a shelter. One day, while Sanders was taking a shower, someone broke into his locker and started selling his underwear--brand new pairs he had got from the state when he left prison. His new washcloth also vanished. "You might think...
...might think a kiss that generated so much attention would be sexy, shocking, or at least involve two sets of lips. As it happened, the first public peck between England's PRINCE CHARLES and longtime consort CAMILLA PARKER BOWLES was a rather chaste affair. The eruption of unbridled cordiality occurred at a charity event in London given by Parker Bowles. Upon greeting, she and Charles fleetingly brushed both cheeks. No knees were weakened, no monarchy fell. Nevertheless, pictures landed on the front page of virtually every British newspaper. The prearranged public display of affection, which perhaps not so coincidentally happened...
Complexity theory was born in 1984, when brainiacs from the Los Alamos National Laboratory founded the Santa Fe Institute. The SFI remains a cauldron of Ph.D. sorcery, where physicists and biologists consort with psychologists and anthropologists, all in pursuit of the patterns that underlie the adaptive systems around us. "The bigger story," says Susan Ballati, SFI's director, "is not about Bios Group or SFI or other offshoots; rather, it is how a complex adaptive-systems approach to looking at the world is really what will be driving policy, business, education and research in the 21st century...
...peers would not let me consort with an attractive 37-year-old audience member...
...tells me that he is Prince Franz, presumably a distant cousin of the Leopold clan. My suspicions about the prince are heightened when he hands his consort one of those throwaway cameras and instructs her to snap a shot of him with Crowe. Certainly nothing that a real royal from Britain would do. But the Euro-royals are known to ride bikes in Holland and wait at bus stops in Spain. So perhaps having a mantelpiece snapshot with an Australian actor is part of that less starchy image...