Word: befriend
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...Friends: Relationships Across the Lifespan in the 21st Century (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002). Americans come of age sharing soccer fields and video games, roaming the Internet together, occupying the same dorms at college and then winding up as peers at work. Not only are there more opportunities to befriend members of the opposite sex, there are also more reasons to get along outside a romantic context. "A big basis of friendship is commonality," says Monsour, "and today the different sexes have more in common as they go through the life cycle, which becomes a catalyst and incentive to cross-sex friendships...
Second floor resident Meghan R. Sheding ’03 remembers Pennypacker as a “really open community.” Situated furthest from the Yard, Pennypacker, with its central staircase and college-style corridors, forced neighbors to befriend one another. “Packcest is a term that we often use,” laughs Emily...
...underage IDs to middle-aged women, selling Tony Robbins motivational tapes to under-motivated people and operating the most lucrative midget-only casino this side of the Rio Grande, to name a few). This PAC, combined with sizable donations from rich Harvard kids I’ve pretended to befriend over the years, should put me well on my way to purchasing at least one 30-second commercial, possibly...
Although Murray did not socialize much with Harvard students her first semester, she did befriend some fellow first-years, including Rachel Bloomkatz ’04, who met Murray at a dinner at the Dudley...
Murray says that she wishes she had made more of an effort to befriend her peers...