Word: arm-in-arm
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...came into office on probation in the eyes of the Republican hard right and wary of appearing susceptible to Gorbomania. Some members of the new team seem to relish the chance to sound tougher than their predecessors. A number of Bush aides have privately derided Ronald Reagan for his arm-in-arm stroll through Red Square with Gorbachev at their summit meeting last June and for proclaiming the Evil Empire a thing of the past...
...past few weeks, then, have shown the deplorable limits of tolerance on this campus. Gay students should be treated the same as any other Harvard student. They should be able to discuss their sexual identity, walk arm-in-arm in public and ask someone of the same sex to dance. If this community of presumably enlightened students cannot overcome the oppressive conventions of society, how will the society at large ever be able to change...
...game was over--after Cincinnati quarterback Boomer Esiason's pass fell to the grass--we saw something we don't see often in sports anymore, let alone on the tense city streets. When the gun sounded, 49ers Coach Bill Walsh and Cincinnati Coach Sam Wyche walked off the field arm-in-arm...
...gown competition each semi-finalist was escorted in a knockout dress beneath an archway of uplifted Naval Academy sabers and the cadets lucky enough to accompany the lovely ladies wore Good Humor Man ice-cream suits and Remedial Math dropjaw smiles like a bunch of meatheaded Varsity fullbacks strutting arm-in-arm with prospective Homecoming Queens and for the swimsuit competition the camera played fly-on-the-wall in the semi-finalists dressing room and a Miss America of yesteryear wandered from girl-to-girl like a queenbee in a honeycomb and the small-talk turned to silly...
Some of these panels hold insights that are perhaps more challenging. Three schoolgirls walk arm-in-arm down a street besides a pink formal building in a better part of a Chilean town. Two wear uniform-white smocks and the one dressed differently glances over her shoulder as all are oddly compelled forward through the photo's composition...