Word: rapport
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Sophomore John Vinton utilized an adroit backhand shot in defeating Tech captain Joe Rapport...
...irrational and the contingent, Josephine makes a determined effort to re-connect herself with the world that other people live in. As a convalescent, she takes a job and, reluctantly, attends a cocktail party given by an old school friend. But she cannot achieve anything beyond a momentary rapport with the guests; she penetrates the absurd triviality of their preoccupations all too readily and retreats, bewildered, convinced that the fault must lie within herself...
Looking as vibrant as in her portrait by Marcel Vertes, Lily Pons, now a Dallas resident, essayed a summer comeback at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium. One critic praised the 57-year-old coloratura's "firm sense of rapport with the crowd," but the Times, although noting "flashes of the great stylist of yesteryear," contented itself with the comment that "no orchestra could be expected to follow a singer through quite as many adventures with pitch as Miss Pons encountered...
...relationship went better than anyone had expected. Thanks in large part to the help of Jackie Kennedy at her prettiest, Kennedy charmed the old soldier into unprecedented, flattering toasts and warm gestures of friendship. The young aristocrat of Massachusetts and the old aristocrat of Colombeyles-Deux-Eglises achieved a rapport that would help when France and the U.S. try to resolve the issues that divide them...
...guidelines for a foreign policy that would not have to just react to the Russians. He sent three personal representatives fact-finding through Latin America. He sent Roving Ambassador Averell Harriman to Western Europe. Behind the scenes at the U.N., Adlai Stevenson moved to achieve greater rapport with responsible neutralists in the Afro-Asian bloc, by backing their resolutions on agenda issues instead of floating his own. The State Department talked of the new U.S. hope of helping to establish broad-based governments instead of strongmen in troubled areas. In a tough memorandum to West Germany, the U.S. warned...