Word: abrazo
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...widely trumpeted salvation through psychoanalysis, the silver screen's golden boy still nursed at least one phobia. Heading home from Argentina, where he had been on location with the Cossack classic, Taras Bulba, Tony Curtis made it to Manhattan by slow boat and, buoyed by a bracing abrazo from Wife Janet Leigh, entrained for the long overland run to Hollywood. Reason for Curtis time-consuming travel plan: an aversion to flying...
...With ears turned intently to the aged master, the critics and music lovers agreed that Casals had never made better music, and that his octogenarian bow arm was as firm as ever. At concert's end, the audience arose in a standing ovation. The President gave Casals an abrazo and summoned Alice Longworth to the front of the room for a bow. She had heard the great cellist in his last White House performance, 57 years before, when he played for her President father Theodore Roosevelt...
...carrying to Prado's elegant and equally aristocratic wife, Clorinda. Prado, whose innate courtliness has carried him through ten such state visits around the world in the past three years, moved along the waiting line of diplomats and dignitaries with a warm handshake here, a warmer abrazo there...
...Cuban revolution nationalist nonCommunist. Eight months later, when Cuba's touring puppet President turned up in Mexico after having been rebuffed en route by Argentina's President Frondizi and Venezuela's Betancourt, López Mateos went down to the airport, gave him a warm abrazo and a warm word: "We are linked to Cuba by similar aspirations for justice." At the Organization of American States' San José meeting last August, Mexico's Foreign Minister was a leader in cutting the heart out of the U.S. resolution criticizing Cuba...
...handshake to dictators but warmly embrace democratically chosen chiefs of state. When López Mateos arrived at Washington's National Airport, the President was there and, symbolic of the increasingly friendly relationship between the U.S. and its next-door southern neighbor, saluted him not only with an abrazo but a warm handshake...