Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want it. Papandreou had good reason for his caution: a year ago, when Premier Constantine Karamanlis, who in his eight years in power had been a close ally of Frederika and King Paul, vetoed a trip to Britain the royal couple wanted to make, he lost their friendship-and his premiership...
With earnestness, I request your honour to kindly give me an address of a girl so as to make myself have a pen-friendship with her. With unshakeable faith in your mercy on me, I am writing to you this humble letter from India. Please help me. Aysnefnanam
...reach an unknown land. He does not speak the local language; he has no money, no clothes, and often little hope. If he comes from a great city like Johannesburg or Cape Town, he invariably finds Dar es Salaam unattractive and longs for the music and night life and friendship of home. He is often quick to tell others that he wants to go back, and equally swift to admit to himself that returning is impossible...
...promise. Chuck Klusmann, a graduate of the Navy's tough course on survival and escape in Southeast Asia, was already plotting his escape. According to officers of the anti-Communist Meo tribe, who live in the Pathet Lao stronghold. Klusmann's first step was to cultivate the friendship of his Communist guards. Using sign language and charades, he slowly won them over, at last persuaded them to help him escape...
Cook came to A.E.P. in 1953 from the Securities and Exchange Commission, where he had worked up from financial analyst to chairman under Harry Truman. Along the way, he earned two law degrees from George Washington University, became a C.P.A., and struck up a close friendship with a young Congressman, Lyndon Johnson. When Johnson became a Senator, he drafted Cook to become counsel to his famed Senate Preparedness subcommittee. Said Johnson then: "He's rough, but he's fair. I don't think there's an abler man in Government." Don Cook...