Word: tete
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More important than knowing the specific office or official who can help you, though, is simply the willingness to trudge from office to office until you've accomplished your goal. The corridors you'll wait in may be filled with lines of people waiting for audiences, and your tete a tete with an administrator may prove discouraging or unfruitful, but at least you will be taking some form of action. It's better than sitting in your room bemoaning your fate...
...reduced to radio broadcasts for his news, most of it bad or even worse, indifferent to his existence. Daily, however, his royal host, King Hassan II, drives over to Dar es Salaam Palace for a tete-a-tete, often chauffeuring himself in a sleek Mercedes 4505E with only a chihuahua lap dog as sentinel. There is an occasional family excursion into the Middle Atlas Mountains, but this involves screaming sirens and two limousine loads of jittery security guards scarcely a soothing outing. At home at the palace, 200 Moroccan troops are on guard duty...
...first day of football practice this year, junior Scott MacLeod bumped into senior John MacLeod coming out of the locker room and a brief tete-a-tete transpired between the "Mick and Mack" of Harvard football. This short conversation was to change the course of the whole season...
...When I came here as a freshman, Meg Streeter and I promised each other that we would not leave Harvard without starting women's ice hockey," Worsley said. The idea was tabled last year until after exams when Worsley broached the subject with Nancy Kerrebrock. The outcome of this tete-a-tete was a trip to see Floyd Wilson at 60 Boylston...
...Tete-a-Tete...