Word: abrazo
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Hall for Republicanism upon moving the family outside the biggest city's limits to Long Island's Long Beach (pop. 31,800). Carlino promptly demanded "a greater realization of the problems of the metropolitan area," received a vigorous, Latin-style abrazo from Rockefeller, who thus seemed to embrace the oft-neglected voting power of the ever-growing suburbs...
...chant-"Olmedo! Olmedo! Ol-me-do!"-crashed across the apron as the champion, tall in his crisp blue suit, threw his arms around Sponsor Harten in an abrazo. With tears running down his face, he hugged his mother and father, his seven-year-old sister and his five brothers. That afternoon at Lima's National Stadium, President Manuel Prado decorated him with the Sporting Laurel of Peru (First Degree). Olmedo posed with the Davis Cup. then played a fast exhibition match against a fellow Davis Cup team member, St. Louis' Earl Buchholz. Appropriately, Olmedo...
...every factory and shop was closed, and the streets, balconies and rooftops were packed with a clapping, shouting crowd. Marmon-Herrington tanks cleared a path for Castro's Jeep. Rebels with outthrust rifles finally forced the way through the throngs to the palace, where Castro got a warm abrazo from his hand-picked President, Manuel Urrutia. "I never did like this palace," Castro told the crowd, "and I know you do not either, but maybe the new government will change our feel ings." Later, at Camp Columbia, where 30,000 people waited, he spoke in his high-pitched voice...
...last week. It was a historic occasion. Ever since Chile defeated them in the War of the Pacific (1879-83), Peru and Bolivia have sullenly blamed each other for their joint misfortune. But from the moment that Peruvian President Manuel Odría gave him a big abrazo at the airport, Paz Estenssoro was treated like a long-lost brother. Bands played, a Cadillac convertible drove the Presidents through cheering throngs. Paz responded: "Peru and Bolivia have an ancestral unity . . . There is now a new spirit in our two nations, seeking closer economic and cultural relations...
...plaza being cleared by the government in front of the Basilica of Guadalupe, Mexican Catholicism's national shrine in one of the capital's northern suburbs. The ceremony over, the smiling President turned and flung his arms around grizzled old Archbishop Luis Maria Martinez in an emotional abrazo. That gesture to the-primate of Mexico dramatically told the approving crowd of thousands-and all Mexico-how much the historic breach between church & state in Mexico has been healed...