Word: hug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When it came to tackling, the same attitudes prevailed. The Big Red line tackled viciously. Harvard linemen, however almost fell over backwards to hug the Cornell ball-carriers. But the latter seemed to avoid the fraternal show of Ivy League affection...
...your own home and matriculate!" cooed the announcer. "Hug the radio and become a college student! In cooperation with the University of Louisville, WHAS presents for the first time over any standard commercial station a college course for credit...
Cold Perfectionists. But there was something wrong with all of them. They showed a "mechanization of human relationships," described themselves and their spouses as undemonstrative. There was, Dr. Kanner found, "no glamor of romance in premarital courtship, no impetuousness in postnuptial mating." He saw only one mother hug her child warmly and bring her face close to his; many of the busy fathers hardly knew their children...
...fifth round, he had connected often enough to bloody his opponent's eyes, and Rocky's white trunks looked like a butcher's apron. Home, a shifty boxer, managed to last out the ten rounds. Rocky won, by a decision, and then rushed over to hug & kiss the man he had been trying to decapitate a moment before-and 5,181 fans roared approvingly...
...only people in the world who thought of an ideal first and then built a state around it-will prove in the long run happier, freer, and more creative when they carry that ideal of a free society out into the world, than if they sit at home to hug it to themselves. ... I suspect that Americans will find initiative and action so much more to their taste than any panic-stricken waiting on what destiny may bring...