Word: befriending
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What have we done in Mexico? Our initial purpose was to befriend a sister republic; we have ended by incurring a hatred which generations of painstaking diplomacy may not obliterate. Our refusal to recognize Huerta, our brazen attempt to regulate) Mexican politics, our bluster at Tampico and Vera Cruz and our subsequent undignified withdrawal, --these are acts which defy interpretation in terms of any national and con- sistent policy. We befriended Villa, we countenanced Carranza, and we failed utterly to protect American rights and American lives. After the massacres at Santa Ysabel and Columbus, we started out to "get Villa...
...Gambrel-roofed House could not boast an unbroken ring of natural objects encircling it. Northerly it looked upon its own outbuildings and some unpretending two-story house which had been its neighbors for a century or more. To the south of it the square brick dormitories and the befriend hall of the university helped to shut out the distant view. But the west windows gave a broad outlook across the common, beyond which the historical "Washington elm" and two companions in line with it spread their leaves in summer and their networks in winter. And far away rose the hills...
Thou shouldst befriend a being...