Word: hug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mamie Eisenhower dropped in at the House of Mercy, a foundling home in the capital, and gave a grandmotherly hug to three-month-old John David, whose adoption by foster parents is pending...
Defensively, starting fullback Hug Sargent played an excellent game. Bob Dean, Rusty MacIntosh, Juan Rodrigues, and substitute halfback Steve Szaras also bolstered the defense...
...brave but futile effort to mask his emotions. A great grin kept spreading over his face, and he was jouncing up & down on his toes as if in time to a gay tune. When John stepped down from the plane with his wife Barbara, he was greeted by a hug and kiss from Mamie, a warm handclasp from his father. Said Ike quickly: "Hello, Son." A newsreel man yelled: "Put your arm around John." Ike balked. "You just go ahead," he replied, a five-star bite in his tone. "You're not directing...
...heroine's welcome at the San Diego railroad station after winning the U.S. clay courts tennis title in River Forest, Ill., photographers asked her to kiss her 21-year-old seagoing boy friend, Petty Officer Norman Brinker. Little Mo politely refused, gave him a warm hug and a smile instead. But things were different at home. A cameraman followed her out to the stable, snapped her in a reunion with Colonel Merryboy, a seven-year-old roan presented to her last year by admiring citizens of San Diego...
Instead of shrinking from the play's preposterous involvements and broadly comic scenes. Director Guthrie and his cast seize them, hug them, and waltz them right into the present. The transformation is aided by brilliant modern costumes, both Voguish and roguish, designed by Tanya Moiseiwitsch; Shakespeare in tails seems no more anachronistic than Shaw in a toga, and at times quite as cynical. The play's "Florentine Widow" becomes a wonderful old madam catering to the occupation forces; Helena's choosing a husband is turned into a charming kind of debutante cotillion; and the scene in which...