Word: mutual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...election microscope are dead), some undefined jargon (what is a "referee?"), the only real technical flaw is the need for a glossary. Still, Goodfield's book has its virtues. She gives us a clear look at a scientific Athens--a society of intellect held together by the bonds of mutual curiousity--a republic of the mind...
...suppose they do not look upon us kindly. It is useless to talk to anybody other than Kim II Sung, so he and I must meet and begin a dialogue. Let us talk first of the relatively easy problems, so as to build up gradually an atmosphere of mutual trust and confidence. We should persevere through this effort to begin the dialogue, which could make peace a little more secure, a little less precarious. The U.S. should support this position and also mobilize world opinion so that Mr. Kim will find it very difficult to refuse...
...first President to be more at ease on-camera than those who interview him. That showed in Walter Cronkite's interview. When those two top contenders for the title of Mr. Likeable were pitted against each other, the interview almost ground to a halt out of mutual agreeableness. Cronkite soon found himself compelled to question the answers he was getting with a little more sharpness than he usually does. Reagan, as he steps in or out of limousines, is also skilled at throwing out a one-line response to a question about the day's news...
...pleasure seemed to be real and mutual, despite several testy issues that divide the countries. As two men determined to like each other who find to their surprise that they actually do, the polished Trudeau and the affable Reagan took to each other warmly. They even exchanged lines of poetry from memory when they discovered, after a long lunch at the Prime Minister's residence, a mutual fondness for the poems of Robert Service.* Above all, Reagan succeeded by simply being Ronald Reagan, thanking the Canadian Parliament for such exports as Mary Pickford and Art Linkletter, and saying that...
...granddaughter Jeannie. Unlike Jeannie's minor role in Olsen's novella. Joyce Eliason and Alex Lytie, authors of the screenplay, developed the granddaughter's character fully, allowing her to unearth Eva's "other" personality: that of a casual, free-spirited, and highly intellectual woman. The authors successfully show the mutual infatuation of relationships that span generations...