Word: hugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exit visa until Christmas, if then. But Ed Bowling knows his way around, wherever he is. He got his visa O.K. in eight days and flew back to Helsinki. Last week Ed landed on Hoosier soil again with 13 samples of vodka, and gave his wife Myrtle a big hug. "They say that Moscow is the heaven of the Soviet," said Ed. "Well, if that's heaven, all I can say is it's a hell of a heaven...
...Reader Ripley's memory has wandered slightly: the stylish Bank Exchange's presiding genius was Duncan Nichol, and potent Pisco Punch ("Two, and you'd hug a wildcat") was his invention. Pisco John's was a sailors' pub a few blocks away...
...supplementary budget. Just before a night session of the Diet last week, he expansively invited some 20 fellow Diet members to dine with him. Host Izumiyama, who is 52, turned up a little late, a little drunk. While the toasts were in progress, the Finance Minister, pausing only to hug a couple of waitresses, sat down by Mrs. Haruye Yamashita, 48, a solidly built, mannishly dressed member of the opposition, who had had a couple of drinks herself. Izumiyama wasted no time indicating that he was in an amorous mood. He suggested they have a quiet drink together somewhere...
...swung in over Shansi's western border we looked down on an expanse of craggy peaks with terraces stepped up the sides and brown parched river valleys. Taiyuan's danger could be seen with the naked eye. The walls of the square city hug the slope of a mountain range sprinkled with pillboxes held by the Communists. Marshal Yen's forces hold a line past the first group of hills to the west, where Taiyuan's rich coal and iron resources are mined. From positions as close as two miles from the walls the Reds...
...money for magazines. But we have some friends who know how much good read ing means to us and who send us their mag azines as they finish with them. They ar rive at our home in strange sequence: a 1936 copy of Reader's Digest, for instance, hug ging a current issue of TIME. But it matters little to us; we cherish each copy with the same joy we'd have in receiving a crisp new $100 bill. And how we share our treasures with our neighbors! That's a tale in itself...