Word: hug
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been following U.S. gymnastic progress since the 1979 World Championships in Fort Worth. "It was all the more bittersweet because I had gone to Moscow to cover the 1980 Games they could not attend. After the men's team victory, I talked to Bart Conner. There is no hug as bone-crushing as that of a gymnast capable of hanging motionless in an iron cross. 'It wasn't easy to wait so long,' I said to him. 'Yes,' he replied, 'but aren't you glad we stayed to see this...
...times rushing to hug each other from across the floor of the Bright Hockey rink, at other times struggling to match names to faces, 269 members of the Class of 1934 and 240 of their wives arrived at Harvard yesterday to celebrate 50 years of being Harvard alumni...
When Harry is, once again, upset at his son's failure to take responsibility, the kid closes him in a bear hug, assuring his father that there is absolutely nothing wrong. "We have a nifty house...we'll do just fine, an asshole and a sonofabitch." He then leaves Harry to trot back to the beach, as the camera zooms to the face of his father, blank with shock and rage. He then proceeds to kick out his offspring in the hope that "...he'll see the light when he feels the heat." The expectation seems futile...
...time to get home for the birth of his second child. But Alexander Ryan Mahre slipped across the starting line of his life in Scottsdale, Ariz., half an hour before Dad streaked across the finish line. Barely stopping to collect his gold medal, Mahre hastened home last week to hug his wife Holly, 22, and hold his son for the first time. Reconfirming that he would soon be "hangin' 'em up" (his skis, not diapers), Mahre cooed, "It's great finally to have him in my arms...
Houston twelve-year-old gets his first hug...