Word: rapport
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...Last year he transformed a dispirited collection of losers into a winning team (7-5-2). Said Vince: "What I missed most was -well, it wasn't the tension or the crowds or the game on Sunday. There's a great closeness on a football team-a rapport between the men and the coach. It's a binding together, a knitting together. For me, it's like fathers and sons. That's what I missed." Football's proudest father died of cancer last week at the age of 57, and the rugged sons...
...marijuana and the absurd similarity of their situations established a rapport. Slowly the first man drawled, "Hey . . . hey . . . aren't you . . . Elliott Gould...
...between the young and the old, there is far more communication across the lines than is usually assumed. Part of the reason is that the alienated young, while a significant and inescapable group, represent only a minority. And even within the minority, the beginning of a new rapport between the generations is taking place. The phenomenon is still scattered but nonetheless remarkable. It involves a mutual search for understanding in which it is the young who influence and even instruct...
...advantage this fall should be the leadership of Farneti, who was the inspiration- as well as the physical anchor- of the defense as a junior. John Cramer was a nice guy, but a sparkplug he wasn't. And despite the fact that Yovicsin doesn't have great rapport with his players, perhaps they will try extra hard this fall in order to give him a going-away present...
...advantage this fall should be the leadership of Farneti, who was the inspiration-as well as the physical anchor-of the defense as a junior. John Cramer was a nice guy, but a sparkplug he wasn't. And despite the fact that Yovicsin doesn't have great rapport with his players, perhaps they will try extra hard this fall in order to give him a going-away present...