Word: hug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leadership of Montana's Senator Mike Mansfield. A quiet, gentle man, Mansfield has notably failed to rally his colleagues behind Kennedy's programs. Explains one Democratic Senator: "Lyndon Johnson used to wring our arms out of their sockets; but then he'd give us a bear hug afterwards, and we tolerated him. Mike wouldn't even think of putting a gentle twist on a man's arm; we love him, but he gets nothing." In the vacuum, such senior Democrats as Oklahoma's Robert Kerf and Virginia's Byrd now go their...
...Canaveral, Glenn showed poignant emotion when he was reunited with his wife Anna. After a long hug and kiss, he wiped his eyes hastily with a handkerchief, then turned to embrace his children (David, 16 and Lyn, 14) and his mother and greet the other members of his family, who had flown down from Washington the night before with President Kennedy. Said John Glenn Sr., as he casually greeted his son: "How're you doing...
...days. "Lemme hear them tills ring!" Toots yelled. To his eleven-year-old son Rory, Shor called "C'm on, little Toots! Drink up! Have a little booze!" A young Roman Catholic priest entered diffidently, and Shor bounded over to him to greet him with a hug and a kiss. It was "Father Bill" McCormick of Brooklyn, who had blessed the new restaurant for Shor a day earlier. "That's the kind of place it is," Shor explained later. "A place where children can come, a place where the clergy comes. Everybody feels at home here. Nobody...
Fortnight ago, Finnish President Urho K. Kekkonen barely escaped a crushing bear hug, won postponement of "military talks" with Moscow. Last week the price of the respite became clearer: a move to silence Finland's anti-öCommunists...
...last week and presented a note extending formal recognition. Three days earlier, the new regime, coolly and without publicity, accepted Soviet recognition. Said one longtime Western observer: "This is the most pro-Western government Syria's ever had." adding pointedly: "But, let's not kiss it and hug it to death...