Word: abrazo
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...Then during his state visit to the U.S. last year, Arosemena managed to show up wobbly at a private chat with President Kennedy. Some months later, when Chile's dignified, austere President Jorge Alessandri visited Ecuador, Arosemena nearly collapsed as he tried to give his guest the traditional abrazo at the airport, then insisted on conducting the brass band. At cocktails, Arosemena saw that Alessandri's champagne glass stood untouched, plucked the goblet from beneath his guest's nose and guzzled it down...
...Kennedy's presence rather than his words that made the impact on a screaming crowd of nearly 40,000. As the President walked slowly through the lines of troops, chatting with many of the men, one ex-prisoner broke from the ranks to lock him in a mighty abrazo...
...salute that Ben Bella got on the White House lawn, Castro had an old Communist satellite gimmick to impress his guest-a 21-tank salute. As the long rifles of the Russian-built tanks barked their welcome, the bearded Cuban gave the slim Algerian rebel a mighty abrazo and then led him to the microphones. Said Castro: "To make this visit at a time when the powerful Yankee empire has redoubled its hostility against our country ... is, on your part, Señor Premier, an act of courage and a gesture we shall never forget...
...intention to visit Fidel Castro in Cuba just two days after meeting President Kennedy in the White House. One of his first acts in Manhattan was to call on Cuba's President Osvaldo Dorticos, who next day denounced the U.S. in violent terms. In a mixture of Latin abrazo and the tradi tional French greeting, both men hugged and kissed each other. Linking the "kissing match" to Communism rather than to courtesy, the New York Mirror cried: "Ben Bella go home and kiss an Arab...
...there was as much anti-gringoism in Mexico as people say, the U.S. President saw little of it. By the uncounted millions, Mexicans gave him and his pretty wife the warmest abrazo and the greatest outpouring of good will he had yet seen on his travels...