Word: rapport
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...later do on TV. But as the President finished his explanation, the five leaders sat in hushed silence. Finally House Speaker Tip O'Neill broke it. "God bless you, Mr. President," he said. "And good luck." Tip gently patted Reagan's arm in a rare moment of rapport...
...intimate theater in the round structure of the Charles Playhouse makes up for some of this lost rapport. The use of a five-member band on the stage preserves the nightclub ambience which must have been characteristic of Lehrer's own performances...
Dorothy added that her husband had a "wonderful rapport with all the students" and that he enjoyed watching them develop into worldly professionals...
...have really become fast friends. Only this time, by all accounts, the feeling was genuine. "The President and Prime Minister hit it off," said a senior Administration official after Australia's Labor Prime Minister Bob Hawke emerged from a two-hour chat with Reagan last week. The personal rapport was evident when the two men appeared together afterward. Said Reagan: "We had a productive session and, more importantly, we've had a chance to put our relationship on a personal basis. We have much in common." Indeed, the meeting was so successful that Hawke felt compelled to reassure...
...balance, the Prime Minister of three months earned considerable political capital from his world travels. "Mr. Hawke . . . seems to have developed a real rapport with President Reagan and his colleagues which should service Australia well," gushed the Australian. Taking a somewhat longer view, the Melbourne Age editorialized: "When Mr. Hawke's warm memory of his days in Washington begins to fade under the pressures at home, he can at least take some comfort from the fact that the cozy pictures with President Reagan will not have done him any harm in terms of Australian politics." Hawke's domestic...