Word: rapport
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...letterman to wear the Crimson. Portfolio has made a mark in many and varied fields. He has provided leadership for hockey teams: organization for swimming practices: and skilled instruction for weight men in track. He knows how to handle the temperamental personalities of tennis players, has established intimate rapport with football players, and even knows how many people make up a basketball team...
Civilian Collaborators. Toward the end of 1966, as civic-action teams pushed ahead with new roads and schools in the interior and established the first real rapport with the campesinos, the army was able to launch a major drive against guerrilla strongholds in the Sierra de las Minas in north eastern Guatemala. To aid in the drive, the army also hired and armed local bands of "civilian collaborators" licensed to kill peasants whom they considered guerrillas or "potential" guerrillas. There were those who doubted the wisdom of encouraging such measures in violence-prone Guatemala, but Webber was not among them...
...even the best is not infallible; even the smoothest of relationships can wrinkle in Washington's political heat. The Secretary's constant scrapping with Congress, though in behalf of Administration policies, became a more serious problem as Johnson's own rapport with the Hill lessened. And like some other high officials, McNamara occasionally made euphoric prophecies about Viet Nam that, while politically appropriate at the moment, later turned into ammunition for Johnson's critics. The most unfortunate boomerang was tossed in the fall of 1963, when McNamara and General Maxwell Taylor predicted that most U.S. troops...
...friendship of Maria and Bonhoeffer blossomed into romance in 1942, after her graduation from high school. "The rapport," she remembers, "was immediate. He was able to transform the fumblings and erratic emotions of a young girl into the assured certainty that this was an addition and a source of strength to his own life." Following their engagement, Bonhoeffer initially accepted the prospect of a lengthy betrothal out of respect to Maria's family. "But soon," she writes, "he objected clearly, decisively and repeatedly. When we succeeded in changing the dictum, it was too late; he had been imprisoned...
...style, the school divided up into small groups to discuss smoking and the question of "maturity and immaturity" among the students as a correlative. Also true to Palfry style was the faculty's concern over the students' decision to meet separately from the faculty. The faculty feared that the rapport between students and faculty might be breaking down...