Word: rapport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gamon, who practices in Cheney (pop. 6,407), has nothing but praise for Medex Robert Woodruff, a former Army medic who helps him provide medical care at Eastern Washington State College. "He has good rapport with the students, who come back often and ask for him," says Gamon. Patients are equally impressed with the work of ex-Navy Corpsman Ronald Graves, a veteran of Marine combat in Viet Nam, who now works with Dr. Marshall Thompson in Davenport. Says one middle-aged patient: "If he's good enough to take care of our boys on the battlefield...
...elected representatives of Pattani Province, where most of the guerrilla activity is taking place, called on the provincial administrators (composed almost exclusively of Thai Buddhists) to cooperate with them. Rep Vilai Banjalak stated that the elected representatives have close rapport with the people which causes suspicion among the local administrators. He said that when a representative recently bailed out a man from local police custody to helphis family with harvesting, the action was regarded by local officials as supporting banditry...
...while serving as general counsel to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in 1967. Muskie, then heading the committee, impressed Bernhard with his succinct definition of duties: "All I want to know from you is if what we are doing is proper and lawful." The two have enjoyed an uncomplicated rapport during Muskie's political forays ever since. Bernhard served as a key writer and adviser in Muskie's 1968 vice presidential campaign...
...swashbuckler, which was regarded as epic only when stricken with elephantiasis, was always a totally escapist form: it transported the audience to a never-never land where evil baron Basil Rathbone could say to rebel Errol Flynn, "You speak treason!"; to which Flynn could add: "Fluently." What creative rapport could Hollywood establish with twelfth-century England or Italian buccaneers? All they could do was film the material as excitingly as they could, and spice it up with Campish or currently idiomatic dialogue...
...tiger." (A few days before socking his father, he had flailed away at a sister.) The transformation is typical of changes wrought by Sumner ("Mike") Burg, an unpretentious man whose lack of professional credentials has not kept him from winning the respect of psychoanalysts and psychiatrists. Using his remarkable rapport with insecure children and adults, Mike builds their self-confidence by teaching them to use their bodies more effectively in individual and team sports...