Word: endearing
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...pursuit of a level of faculty interaction that seems unattainable during the academic year, many students will wait out the undergraduate crowds and stay in Cambridge for the summer. They work as undergraduate research assistants, seeking to gain experience in their fields and hoping to endear themselves to one or more of the elusive masters of academia...
...under the Nazis. Germans were the emperors of Europe then, but still suffering from a complex of being powerless victims, having to follow orders. Many of us always wavered between arrogance and submission. After the war, for instance, it was dreadful to see how eager some people were to endear themselves to the Americans. It will take a form of national psychotherapy to bring this into equilibrium...
...mere puppet of the authorities in Hanoi, Hun Sen, 38, has emerged as a leader with a mind of his own. Whether by conviction or out of cynical self-interest, he has pursued reformist policies designed to repair his country's shattered economy as well as to endear him to skeptical citizens: the institution of land-tenure rights for farmers, the beginnings of a free-market economy and recognition of Buddhism as the state religion. While Hun Sen's cloudy history as a former member of the Khmer Rouge and his association with the Vietnamese continue to haunt...
...Your candor cannot endear you to right-wingers...
Former Secretary Bennett, who left the department in September, used his post as a "bully pulpit" to rail against teachers, unions and university administrators -- a group he referred to as "the blob" -- for standing in the way of reform. This did not endear him to educators, and his relations with Congress were similarly frosty. Cavazos, on the other hand, has made an effort to build bridges during his two months in office. "The way I operate is to try to bring people together," he says...