Word: hugged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bicycle riding in America no longer means throwing on dungaree cutoffs and a T shirt and hitting the road on a scuffed-up ten-speed. More and more cyclists are plunking down big money for flashy, funky uniforms that hug the figure and such accessories as helmets, shoes and kneepads...
Both the U.S. and the Soviet ASATs can reach only satellites flying in low orbit, a few hundred miles high. Reconnaissance or "spy" satellites are < vulnerable, since they hug the edge of the atmosphere for a closer view of earth, but most early-warning and communications satellites--the ones used to fight a nuclear war--float out of harm's way as high as 24,000 miles. Unless, that is, even more effective satellite killers are developed...
...they passed through what was a simple reception line, the passengers shook hands with the President, a few patted him on the back, others embraced the First Lady. Some shyly or proudly introduced their wives and children. But all seemed eager to move on, eager to hug those waiting for them a few yards away, eager to get home and out from under the glare of being the unwilling heroes of a televised international crisis. After embracing Nancy, an ebullient Victor Amburgy of San Francisco rushed over, picked up his small niece and bear-hugged the beaming girl. He seemed...
...industrious, responsible, deferential. In that household, Vietnamese is spoken, Vietnamese food is prepared, Vietnamese customs are followed. Son's mother has not been permitted to leave Ho Chi Minh City, and after a decade of separation, he often wonders how he would greet her. With an exuberant American-style hug? Or with a formal, respectful hello? "I'm so changed now," Son says, "that if I faced her, I wouldn't know what...
...referring to Andrew Lloyd Webber as the composer of Jesus Christ Superstore), she is still capable of the silly gaffe. CBS executives stand strongly by her, even after her infamous invitation to Gary Dotson and Cathleen Crowell Webb, the main characters in the recent Chicago rape-testimony recantation, to hug on the air. "We needed a high-powered, experienced TV personality to draw people away from two established, successful competitors," says Executive Producer Jon Katz. "Phyllis George will bring a lot of people into our tent. All she needs is time...