Word: rapport
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...those who have become part of that history. This is why such organizations as the America-Israel Public Affairs Committee support whichever party is in power in Israel. But American Jews and Israelis do have overlapping fates, and this is why it is necessary that there be a rapport and mutual exchange of support between the two groups...
...have to be really straightforward andstrict," Sykes said. "They do test your limits tosee what they can get away with... You just haveto keep your cool." Of course, that's true of anychild, but at Mission Hill the challenge is toestablish an elusive rapport with students fromwhat seems like a different world...
...irsute, shoeless hippies huddled in doorways, smoking pot, 'rapping' (achieving rapport with random talk), or banging beer cans in time to ubiquitous jukebox rhythms. Last week the sidewalks and doorways were filling with new arrivals just off the bus and looking for a place to 'crash' (sleep). They scorn money--they call it 'bread.' They feel 'uptight' (tense and frightened) about many disparate things--from sex to the draft, college grades to thermonuclear war." --July 7, 1967, from a cover story on San Francisco's hippies
...viruses. Almost as an afterthought, Lim sent a sample to Jan De Jong, a virologist at the Dutch National Institute of Health and the Environment who liked to collect unusual strains of influenza. She had never met De Jong, but over the years they had developed a rapport...
Former editors also recall a comfortable rapport with University administrators...