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"I know that that this means to offer the right hand of friendship to keep the left hand free to deliver the knockout blow to break Britain apart.
Macdonald and Kennedy's friendship dated back to their days running the Glasgow university students' union in the early 1980s.
I met him only after I became master of St Peter's College, Oxford, but he had a palpable gift for friendship and within minutes of our first encounter he was coming up with schemes and plots to help the college.
In the audience was the "candy bomber" Gail Halvorsen, now 92, who, as an American airforce pilot, dropped sweets to children during the 1948-49 Berlin airlift, which kept the city's population alive during the Soviet blockade and which became the strongest symbol of US-German friendship.
The way he deals with the inevitable rumours about his sexuality ("Who does it hurt if someone thinks I'm gay"?) is wonderfully beguiling, and that's before we've even started on his humanitarian work in Darfur and Haiti, not to mention his friendship with President Obama, recently in the news following Clooney's bust-up with Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn.
Features is my favourite strand of radio, and there have been some crackers this year, most notably Heel, Toe, Step Together (December, Radio 4), a tenderly composed programme about an unlikely dancing friendship.
"And I'm so glad we waited because there's a certain weight and even sweetness to this record that has to do with a friendship that has gone through so much... we've experienced so much together".
Campbell, who built a close friendship with his former political opponent around the "shared enemy" of alcohol, said he hoped confirmation that alcohol abuse led to Kennedy's death would make politicians take it more seriously as an illness.
In the late 18th century, these two aristocratic Irish ladies, after several attempts (including one dressed as men), escaped on a boat for Britain, hunting, though they were only young, for "a life of sweet and delicious retirement" dedicated to "friendship , celibacy and the knitting of stockings", wrote Sir Walter Scott.
He wrote of how he had forged a strong friendship with Kennedy that was "built on a shared enemy, and that is alcohol".
They disagreed over the Falkland Islands, but it didn't harm their friendship at all.
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The primary grammatical function of "friendship" is as a noun , representing the state of being friends or a specific relationship. Ludwig AI validates this usage with numerous examples demonstrating its role as a subject or object within sentences.
Expression frequency: Very common
