Word: befriending
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...last year, and I daresay we'd do it again if you asked nicely and/or kicked our butts in football again. Perhaps we should resurrect a suggestion made last year that Adams adopt PfoHo, Lowell adopt Cabot and Quincy adopt Currier, or some arrangement like that. In the meantime, befriend an Adamsian. We're cute, we're cuddly and we're allowed two guests apiece...
Rosenthal's marketing strategy does not inspire confidence. It is a comic-book variation on the classic conversion strategy used by proselytizers of all sorts, from cults like the Moonies to communists in their heyday to sects within Judaism that recruit among Jewish tourists in Israel. You befriend your targets when their guard is down, disguising your true intent; then you gradually draw them over to your side...
...Befriend the election commission. They will make sure they you take office even when the rules may dictate otherwise...
Joining groups that pursue hobbies and interests similar to your own takes some of the self-consciousness out of friend seeking and provides a pool of like-minded people to befriend. When Frances Wong Chan, 78, a divorced retiree, moved from Washington to San Francisco 13 years ago to help care for her daughter's children, she didn't know a soul there outside her family. With no old friends in the city to reconnect with, she took the next best route. She joined the Unitarian Church, a book club, a co-counseling group, an investor's club, a senior...
...course, had joined long before me, and was vice-president of the small group. But I noticed right away that Navin was not perceived in the room as a sufferer from cancer; he was perceived as a leader in an effort he had pioneered to help, tutor and befriend children living with the disease...