Word: rapport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus there was no cushion of rapport when the full impact of Watergate began to be felt. Ziegler labeled previous inaccurate pronouncements "inoperative." He apologized to the Washington Post for his earlier attacks. But reporters are in no mood to forgive...
...countryside), the insurgents and their North Vietnamese advisers were able to raise a substantial army. Good revolutionary manners helped. The North Vietnamese always paid for their rice and left the women alone. They provided medical treatment as well. Only after a period of moving in and establishing rapport with the peasantry did the K.I. set up rustic revolutionary schools and local governing committees in the Chinese or North Vietnamese style...
...report notes the personality and student rapport of each House Master. Highlights include the approachability and intense loyalty of F. Skiddy von Stade '38, Master of Mather House...
...major goal is to move things off dead center." Ismail, who brought a personal message to Nixon from Sadat, emphasized to his hosts the expectable point: Egypt does not intend to give up territory in any settlement with Israel. Beyond that, there were practical hints that a peaceful rapport between Cairo and Washington is feasible only as long as Sadat stays in power; if domestic upheavals overthrow the President, international settlements will be a long time in coming...
...enemies who resent his power and personal style, his dates with beautiful women and access to a larger, more glamorous world. Kissinger's strength in the Administration, so far, has been that he has won the President's confidence and trust, that they enjoy a remarkable professional rapport. Says one high-ranking U.S. diplomat: "The halls of the State Department are littered with the bones of those who thought they could split the President and Henry." The President even wrote Kissinger once: "Frankly, I cannot imagine what the Government would be without...