Word: compatriots
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...exterior world however cruel could never dream such an exquisite torture, but as I look I see my horror mirrored in the twisted gaze of Ginsburg #1, stiff body and loose jaws quivering at the impossibility, and the consequence is significant to arouse even the sensibilities of our rumpled compatriot, shifting and moaning, voices a thought: "Man, wouldn't it be a freak if someone turned Reagan on? I mean, shit, if he just had one light, he'd see it..."--and there is a moment of uncertain embarassed terror before we realize that the moonface, putting his valise...
...Compatriot of Mr. Bennet, We Presume...
...those who did. China's Chou En-lai came in 1920, some 70 years after Karl Marx left Paris for London and eight years after a young Russian revolutionary named Vladimir Ilyich Lenin moved from Paris to Poland. While working at the Renault auto plant, Chou met a compatriot, Deng Xiaoping, China's present ruler, and together they founded a branch of the Chinese Communist youth organization. One of their contemporaries in Paris was Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh...
...this tense atmosphere Kluckhohn and Murray found a compatriot with whom they launched a daring endeavor. In 1936, Talcott Parsons had moved into Harvard's Sociology Department after a stint in the Economics Department. Trained as a philosopher and intrigued by several fields within the social sciences, Parsons found his broad interest in the study of man in society stifled in the Economics Department. He wasn't much happier in Sociology. Together with Kluckhohn, Murray and several other scholars, Parsons began considering the benefits of creating a formal alliance of dissatisfied scholars...
...were quite dumb--"Did somebody hurt you once before?/ There are other friendships left for you to explore"--who could gainsay a band that sings songs with titles like "Hayride to Hell"? (This last song turned out to be a twangy number that, thankfully, bore no resemblance to the compatriot AC DC's "Highway to Hell...