Word: rapport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forging Washington's new links with Peking and establishing a personal rapport with Chou, Kissinger shrewdly capitalized on China's fears of Soviet expansionism. Tuning, Kissinger readily concedes, has always played a large part in his success as a statesman. But says one Washington friend and admirer: "Sure, a lot of doors open for him. but he walks through them with class...
...ways. When he meets Israeli leaders, for instance, Kissinger calls Golda Meir "Madame Prime Minister," while Dayan and Allon are always "Moshe" and "Yigal." Foreign Minister Abba Eban, by contrast, is simply "Eban." Explains one participant in their talks: "For Mrs. Meir he has high respect, with Dayan good rapport, with Allon comradeship. With Eban there is not much more than a colleague-to-colleague relationship, since Eban is the silent man on the team who does not have much to say." Although Sadat addresses his "dear friend" as "Henry," Kissinger calls the Egyptian leader "Mr. President...
...these people have to get by without any until new ones take their place," McCleery explained. "They have to remember the old joke about how porcupines make love," he added whimsically. "They do it very carefully." In Hardesty Park Roger and Pat blunder their way into a more balanced rapport, pricking each other with their quills in the process. By the end of the play McCleery offers an optimistic perspective on marriage. Egos remain intact, the puncture wounds have closed, and the couple settles down to a blissful future in Eden...
...Honeywell Industries, is, no doubt, an exquisite piece of machinery and Hall's pride for his prize purchase is somewhat understandable. But keep in mind that I for one cannot relate to computers and I am only a little better at relating to people who develop a deep, emotional rapport with them...
Ford has been good at rapport all his life. He was born in Omaha and christened Leslie King. Two years later his parents were divorced, and his mother took him back to her home town, Grand Rapids, Mich. There she married Paint Manufacturer Gerald Rudolph Ford, who adopted her son and renamed him. For pocket money in high school, the young Ford waited on tables in a Greek restaurant. A strapping 6 ft. 197 Ibs. when he entered college, he played center on the University of Michigan's undefeated national-championship football teams of 1932 and 1933. Along...