Word: rapport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Early on, Fort said, Patty had been attracted "to the purposes of the S.L.A." He attributed this reaction to her poor rapport with her family, a dissatisfaction with her life with Fiance Steven Weed, and a yearning for excitement. He estimated that she had willingly joined the S.L.A. about six weeks before the robbery of the Hibernia Bank branch in San Francisco on April...
Forty years later a lack of rapport still was noticeable. In 1894 Sir Fred erick Lugard, who was to become Nigeria's first Governor, traveled to an inner principality called Borgu and succeeded in getting two treaties signed in favor of the British Royal Niger Company. As he returned there was a brief skirmish. Lugard reported with the stiffest possible upper lip: "The only casualty in the fighting line was myself, an arrow having penetrated deep into my skull." When he got home, he sustained another grievous wound: the signatures on the treaties were fake...
...rural constituents. "Georgians are conservatives," he later explained, "and I told them that conservatism and racism are not the same thing. We talked about the positive aspects of conservatism: the opposition to big government; the flag, patriotism. We made that pitch hundreds of times. This gave me a rapport with the voters, and it did not remind them or make them think of past deficiencies...
...polished, quick-witted intellectual, an urbane man of the book rather than the gun. They would seem to have little in common, yet by the time Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau ended a three-day visit to Fidel Castro's Cuba last week, an obvious rapport had developed between the two leaders. As TIME's Ottawa bureau chief William Mader, who accompanied Trudeau, reported, the airport farewell ceremonies turned into a kind of emotional family affair as Castro embraced Trudeau, kissed his wife Margaret and cuddled their four-month-old baby. When asked at a Havana press...
...wasn't so much that I disliked the town--I just had difficulty relating to it. My relationship with my neighbors, the just-married Connallys, is an example. I didn't dislike the Connallys, but there was a distinct absence of rapport...