You really get an acquaintance over the years with the boats and the fleets of various harbors.
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.
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.
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.
After months of intimidation from her rapist and indifference from the police, she got a politically powerful acquaintance to intervene, and her rapist was finally arrested.
Hisham searched for Khalid for three days, and finally got a call from an acquaintance on the government-controlled side of the city, who said that Khalid had been killed by a sniper.
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 day the deal was announced, the lawsuit says, Mr. Cohee got a phone call from an acquaintance at Morgan Stanley who said he was "delivering a message" from the firm's officers.
