Word: hugged
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...have recovered from the death of his mother Gladys, who died of liver problems in 1958, just after Presley had gone into the service. Presley was more than bereft; he was cleaved. The open coffin finally had to be covered with glass because he still wanted to kiss and hug his mother, pleading with her to come back. It was a different Presley who went back to the Army, and then to serve in Germany. He seemed to be haunted ever after by her, as we, still and likely always, will be haunted...
...Count to yourself how many times in your life an inspired act of sports greatness moved you to hug and high-five people you don't even know, people who just happened to be sitting next to you, in a bar or in the stands...
President Clinton cozied up to Boris Yeltsin during the Russian President's state visit today, giving him a bear hug and a pledge of a half-billion dollars in financing and insurance for private investments in the former Soviet Union. More agreements on aid and nuclear disarmament will probably follow tomorrow. The only likely point of conflict in this two-day love fest: Russia's arms sales to Iran...
...deemed deep enough to serve as an epigraph to the novel: "Mates are not always matches, and matches are not always mates." Food for thought, perhaps, but only to the very hungry. As for Hugo, he gives lectures, largely left to the imagination, that provoke women and men to hug him afterward. And a rather vapid remark he makes comparing a mother and a wife arouses "uproarious laughter...
...after he took his photographs, he chased the bird away and watched as the little girl resumed her struggle. Afterward he sat under a tree, lit a cigarette, talked to God and cried. "He was depressed afterward," Silva recalls. "He kept saying he wanted to hug his daughter...