"Melissanidis, who was traveling to France, offered to take me with him to accommodate me," Mr. Stavridis was quoted as telling the Proto Thema newspaper, which published a photograph of him, smiling, sitting next to a flight attendant.
He told me his goal was "to accommodate me as little as possible".
But of all team sports, baseball, with its graceful intermittences of action, its immense and tranquil field sparsely settled with poised men in white, its dispassionate mathematics, seems to me best suited to accommodate, and be ornamented by, a loner.
I remember stubbing the fag out on the floor of the smoking carriage – remember because of the way the rubberised grooves always seemed to me purpose-designed to accommodate butts.
When I felt frustrated by churning out a standard-length Op-Ed column after a few years, The Times went out of its way to accommodate me by giving me more space, all the better for trying to connect more dots.
"I could have been Maradona and he wouldn't have changed the system to accommodate me", Kinkladze recalled later.
So I found a barber in Kalma who was willing to accommodate me, and I made him promise not to use his razor blade on me.
The cry of 'Hello you!' follows me everywhere and the ladies who run the 'Privacy Guesthouse' on the Khao San recognise me of old and have been known to throw other guests out of their ground floor rooms to accommodate me.
"It cost her more to accommodate me, so she resented it more.
The woman turned her cow around and drove it back home again just to accommodate me.
