Word: hug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hours. To many Britons even such belated tributes seemed altogether inadequate and passive. They wanted to know, bluntly, why Britain did not get right into the ring where the Bear's hug was tying up Hitler. Some of them, remembering Winston Churchill's responsibility for the disastrous Gallipoli campaign of World War I, wondered whether that memory could possibly be making their leader timid...
...Baltimore as alter nate) to San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Port of Spain, Trinidad, to Belem and Natal, Brazil. Then it will hop 1,800 miles - not quite the span from Newfoundland to Ireland - across the Atlantic to Monrovia, Liberia (Bathurst, Gambia and Freetown, Sierra Leone as alternates), will hug the hump of Africa as far as Nigeria, then cut across to Khartoum and perhaps eventually to Cairo. Across Africa, Pan Am planned direction finders, hangars, fields, communications and weather stations, resthouses. Priorities for the necessary materials are expected to be granted shortly. The company intends to have the service...
...Churchill ("Clemmie") sprinted down the platform. Behind her trotted slim Clement Richard Attlee, the Lord Privy Seal, and massive Sir John Anderson, the Lord President of Council. Churchill grinned and watched their approach. Then he gathered his wife in a vast bear hug and bussed her on both cheeks...
This was not completely silly. Megalonyx jeffersoni is so recent that its bones sometimes bear wisps of hair. Paleontologist Patterson thinks that cave men helped to exterminate the creatures though "an embrace from a sloth would have made a bear's hug look like child's play." In expecting to bag a Megalonyx, Jefferson was not "wrong by more than a few thousand years." As bone-diggers measure time, this was only day before yesterday...
...pursued Italians 68 miles to Biscia, head of a railway running down to the Red Sea port of Massaua. Operating here in rough foothills covered with dry six-foot scrub where lions and elephants are more at home than tanks, the British, although forced for the most part to hug the roads, kept so hot after the retreating Italians that the latter scarcely fought even rear-guard actions, until they were within 15 miles of the railhead. The British, in independent little bands of armored cars and Bren carriers commanded by nothing loftier than shavetail lieutenants, flanked two successive defense...