Word: hug
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...jumbled emotions as well as huge celebrations. The mayor, his own business near bankruptcy because of his absence, is edgy and angry. The police chief, his hands noticeably shaky, fears he is quicker on the draw. Their wives, relieved, bemused and touched, notice that their men hug more. But it's not just their families the men are holding close. It's also their fears. Here's how two men and a town are finding their way home, tentatively, from the horrors of Iraq...
...friend David G. Evans ’05, who was with Garcia on Friday night, spoke of his reaction to Friday’s assault. Calling Garcia “short, but strong as hell,” he said that he wasn’t able to hug Garcia when he visited him at the hospital because of his bruises...
...Pacific.Then he takes out a pen and starts sketching a picture of his hotel before launching into a touchy-feely description of its varying moods and, leaning forward in his chair, teaching me a little lesson about the importance of loyalty. I am deeply afraid we are going to hug...
...women place their hands on each other and hug themselves in a healing embrace, it is clear that they search for comfort from one another because other sources have failed them. Particularly cynical of the social and governmental support within Israel, the women are ambivalent to accept outsiders’ compassion...
...Nixon talks, the mannerisms for which he has often been burlesqued start to crop up. Yet in his presence the sudden scowl, the self-administered hug are not only not funny; they do not seem at all spasmodic or out of joint with what he is saying. He is 72, and perhaps his mannerisms have grown less pronounced over the years. But here he is speaking about things with which he feels supremely comfortable, history and diplomacy, and the comfort shows in his face and body...