A long-time acquaintance of Bird ribbed the Pacers' coach yesterday after Indiana practice.

'The trouble with T S,' says one long-time acquaintance, 'is that he cannot bring himself to confide in anybody.'

She is a long-time acquaintance with Ethan because of his standing friendship with her brother Matt.

"Jamie is completely honest, but he can play rough," a long-time acquaintance said.

Hadley, a long-time acquaintance of Stefansson's, was entered in the ship's books as carpenter.

A long-time acquaintance of Chise, as her family has had close relations with the Umenomori family for generations.

They talked from the very beginning as if they were long-time acquaintances.

At least four long-time acquaintances testified under oath that the accident had dramatically changed Muybridge's personality, from genial and pleasant to unstable and erratic.

One went to a long-time acquaintance from the lodging houses along Dorset Street.

They were not old friends, the lord of this house and Tellin Windglimmer, but they were long-time acquaintances.