Word: befriend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Police said Warner would lurk around Harvard Square and befriend boys about 14 or 15 years old, many of whom were homeless. Warner allegedly solicited older teenagers, ages 17 or 18, to help him meet younger teens...
...film, which was shot on location around campus last year, chronicles the life of a group of Harvard seniors who befriend a homeless man--played by actor Joe Pesci...
...Administration's China policy proves how limiting the words "where possible" can be, and confirms National Security Adviser Tony Lake's observation that American interests will, "at times, require us to befriend and even defend nondemocratic states for mutually beneficial reasons" (a summation Jeane Kirkpatrick could as easily have made). During the campaign, Clinton scored regularly with his attacks on George Bush for "coddling" China's dictators, and it was only last May that Trade Representative Mickey Kantor praised Levi Strauss & Co. for abandoning its China operations to protest Beijing's human-rights violations. But "the dance today," says...
...interested in someone--I'll call her "Letitia"--who already has a significant other. Should I try and befriend Letitia so she gets to know me well in case she breaks up with her Other, should I put off the befriending until they break up, or should I just not waste my time worrying? I really, really like her and don't see anyone else I'm really interested in. The worst part is, Letitia and her Other are happy together and their relationship seems perfect, so it gets me depressed when I'm around them. Norma, help me! --Pining...
...McDougal was the kind of go-go entrepreneur that likes to befriend politicians but that politicians sometimes later regret ever having met. His friendship with fellow Arkansan Bill Clinton began in the late 1960s, when both were young staffers for Senator William Fulbright. In 1978 Bill and Hillary joined McDougal and his wife Susan in a real estate venture. A year later, Clinton became Governor and appointed McDougal his economic-development adviser. By the early 1980s, McDougal had left government work to make his fortune: he converted Madison Guaranty, a tiny institution, into one of the largest savings and loan...