Word: hug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest such distinguished visitor was Burma's mild, shrewd little Premier U Nu. Mao Tse-tung's China gave him the regular bear-hug welcome, and was aggrieved to find its guest full of gentle remonstrances...
...sort of traveling living room. One of the first housewives in line was Mrs. Robert M. Johnson, who brought her son Randy. "You don't know what this means to us," she gushed. "You see, Randy was born the day Ike was elected President." He got a hug from the President's lady. Two teenage boys stuck their heads in the rear window and shouted: "Hey, Mamie, how about your autograph?" She obliged. The volunteer workers serving coffee and doughnuts had a bad case of nerves. One confessed later: "My knees were so weak that I was afraid...
...give?" Lana gives plenty, and not only in spy school; she has soon passed the kiss test with flying colors-in this case, black and blue. For at 53 Gable (who was recently called by one half-crushed actress "the Pudge Heffelfinger of osculation") still has the he-manliest hug in the business...
...anniversary present. When a photographer suggested that she put her arm around the President, Mamie laughed and nudged Ike. "Oh no," she exclaimed. "You're the one who's supposed to put your arm around me-" Ike blushed under his tan and declined to hug his wife in public; Mamie affectionately hooked her arm through...
...been dreamily anticipating palship with a four-year-old grandson and his sons-in-law. When little Peter arrives, he is asked to give grandpa a big hug. "I don't want to," Peter cries. "But Peter, darling," his unreflecting mother demands, "don't you like Bompa?" "No," cries Peter. Peter's father is politer, but conversation with him is exhausted "in 40 seconds flat with ten days...