Word: hug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...received a hug and kiss on the ear from a freckled seven-year-old girl in Chicago, a Life Patron membership in the Disciples of Christ Historical Society in Washington, a warning from former President Harry Truman that he "takes too many chances mixing with crowds...
Showing up in Edwardian splendor, the moustached Souvanna Phouma sported a pearl stickpin, Homburg, and carved Laotian walking stick. He received a hug and kiss from Half Brother Souphanouvong, himself resplendent in a most unproletarian two-button suit with a bigger pearl stickpin. Paunchy Soldier Phoumi thought it more appropriate to wear combat fatigues. The trio conferred for an hour, broke for box lunches and Scotch airlifted in from Vientiane...
When his name was read by Anne Bancroft, Sidney Poitier jumped out of his seat and headed for the stage with big bouncing strides, more like a great Negro high jumper than a great Negro actor. He gave Bancroft an exuberant hug, turned to the audience and said emotionally: "It has been a long journey to this moment...
Quarterback Tittle sank weeping onto the Giant bench. Other Giants told everybody that "the best team lost." But Papa Bear Halas, with his eighth championship in 36 years, paid no attention. He just wrapped Larry Morris in a delirious hug; then everybody picked up his honey pot ($6,000 per man) and ambled off to hibernate...
...Bears are the dullest team in pro football- to anybody but a connoisseur of crunch. They hug the ground defiantly, pass only under duress, rank No. 8 in the fourteen-team N.F.L. m scoring (with 233 points) and No. 11 in total offense (with 3,329 yds.). That kind of football is hardly calculated to win friends and influence fans: last month, when the Bears beat the lowly Los Angeles Rams 6-0 on the strength of two field goals they played most of the second half to the accompaniment of home-town boos But the Bears make no excuses...