Word: befriended
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...Governor's wife more than a decade ago in California, she began promoting the Foster Grandparents Program, in which older volunteers befriend orphaned or handicapped children. She has continued some work on behalf of the organization as First Lady. Yet for the past two years, that cause has been eclipsed by a more aggressive, hard-edged campaign intended to discourage drug use among young people. Her advisers encouraged the shift in emphasis: speaking out against marijuana and narcotics use in the schools, they felt, would have greater urgency and political appeal. The serious-minded displays of the First Lady...
...double shock: he is both the incarnation and a parody of her lost love. He speaks in the tones of a computerized Muppet and moves in twitches, like a punk robot. But he is innocent and kind, and as alone in the universe as she feels. She can befriend him, teach him, mother him and finally love him-whoever he is, whomever she wants him to be. She can travel with him, as the movie does, under cruise control toward romantic transcendence...
...that may be the most telling distinction between Restic and Cozza. Both are personally conservative and unemotional on the field, but off the turf. Cozza makes an effort to reassure his squads, even befriend them...
...current world, of course, has not been unlike a giant stage filled with diverse characters. "It is amazing how quickly you befriend each other," he says of his counterparts round the world. "You know that you are faced with the same problems and the same frustrations." Companionship at that level of power is special, and he never felt it so deeply as at the time of Anwar Sadat's assassination. "It was not just a sorrow, the sympathy that you have for someone well known," Reagan says. "There was a feeling of personal loss. That was when I first...
...Wichser incident was obviously meant to serve as a warning to foreigners, and any nationals who might befriend them, to chill such contacts. The Chinese xenophobia reached a peak during the Cultural Revolution but eased in 1976 after the death of Mao Tse-tung. Indeed, Mao's successors "rectified" the error of his fear of foreigners by encouraging association with them as a basis for learning. At the time, of course, contact could be controlled: the diplomats lived in compounds, the foreign press was cautious, and the students and teachers who came were mostly believers in the Maoist revolution...