If she smiles and waves as you walk away, it definitely means you've got an acquaintance.
The son of a short-order cook and a house cleaner who immigrated from Mexico 33 years ago, Mr. Padilla played Little League baseball to stay out of trouble as a boy and got an early acquaintance with volunteer work thanks to his mother.
But I can see nothing wildly exciting about getting a fugitive acquaintance with foreign places.
The other and often much easier option is " transitive linking": getting a mutual acquaintance to introduce the two of you or getting "referenced".
The first step to making an acquaintance is to get a name — and naming nature is not easy.
When I identify my profession to new acquaintances, I get a range of responses: obviously, some people don't find it that interesting--it's not like I'm an astronaut or plastic surgeon, and everyone has known her or his fair share of English teachers.
One afternoon, while we were sipping sugary tea at the home of a mutual friend, she got a call from an acquaintance in Sadr City, an impoverished, mostly Shiite suburb of northeastern Baghdad.
Early in 2010, Cheryl Strayed got an e-mail from an acquaintance, Steve Almond, who wrote an advice column — Dear Sugar — for the literary Web site The Rumpus.
By Michael Schulman Nia Vardalos and Cheryl Strayed Early in 2010, Cheryl Strayed got an e-mail from an acquaintance, Steve Almond, who wrote an advice column — Dear Sugar — for the literary Web site The Rumpus.
