Word: acquaintanceship
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...York Evening Post (later the Saturday Re-view). The author's affections are somewhat frigid and his sense of anecdote lacks pungency, so that much of these reminiscences of a rather raffish and effervescent period read like a sedate editorial essay. His reports of acquaintanceship with people he admires, such as Willa Gather, Robert Frost and Clarence Day (Life with Father) are too guarded and smooth to give any vivid impression of these writers. His sympathies were never deeply engaged by the new writing of the Hemingway generation, and many of his generalizations about it will seem pallid...
...until after a year of agreeable acquaintanceship with the Sokolovs that Mrs. Woikin began to talk. The major gave her cash and expensive perfume. In return, she gave him a watercolor and secret information. Once she left a confidential document in a dentist's room for another agent to pick...
...airdromes on Saipan, the reach to Tokyo (1,500 mi.) was a long one. The Superfortresses, built for just such a job, had to go out with cut-down bomb-loads and carefully calculated fuel allowances to make the run and get home. But as airmen worked into intimate acquaintanceship with their massive, wondrously complicated weapon, the assaults were stepped up both in timing and in loads dropped. This week, when the B-29s had struck the great industrial center at Nagoya a second time, the force on Saipan could count five assaults on the Jap mainland...
...turned to page 42 . . . (TIME, Jan. 24) and there he was, peeping from beneath Mr. McGregor's fence just as he was the first time I ever saw him, 35 years ago. News from the battlefronts went by the board while I renewed an all-but-forgotten acquaintanceship...
Sirs: ... I think Americans should all be ashamed of themselves for having lost out on all the years of Mr. Robeson's "exile." . . . While convalescing at an Army hospital after my return to the U.S., I struck up a casual acquaintanceship with a young Negro private. I asked him: "How did you feel when the doctors told you you were coming home?" ... He replied: "This may sound awful to you, but I hated the thoughts of coming back to my home and having to resume living among people who hate us colored people so much." ... He had been...