Word: tete
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...date, Johnson has been at pains to seek Eisenhower's advice at almost every turn in the war, but last week he skipped any tete a tete with Ike and merely said publicly: "The easiest thing we could do is to get into a larger war with other nations. We are constantly concerned with the dangers of that. At the same time, we have no desire to capitulate or retreat...
Somehow, Kramer is worried that we'll miss the point (the world is a bum place). So he chucks away any thoughts of character development and splices together two-and-a-half hours of drunken tete-a-tetes to make sure that everyone on board gets a chance to bemoan the futility...
...engraved on the sides of their railroad cars and often appear at the company's offices off the Champs Elysees to check on the location of their cars. Co-Presidents Bruggeman and Thomachot encourage this personal interest by inviting visiting investors to "drop by for a whisky and tete-a-tete...
...does possess a certain warmth that wins respect. He almost always wears a huge smile. But not infrequently, he stops to listen to a complaint or a request; then, with his hand clasping his petitioner's, the smile leaves his face and he listens intently. When the quick tete-a-tete is finished, he moves on and his face lights up once again...
...Wendy Craig). At first Tony to her is pretty much of a bore, although good family, good match, and all. She controls him, even calls him a fool. But Barrett upsets her mastery, undermines her confidence; he irritates because he knows more about wines and paintings, he interrupts a tete a tete, mains a jambes in Tony's study, and his seductive offers of stability and the seductress whom he offers woo Tony away from her. Tony is unimportant, but her pride is up; she must defeat Barrett by getting him back...