Word: hugs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, a hearty, smiling man with a grey mane and snapping eyes stepped out of his airplane and into the warmest welcome that a grateful nation could give a favorite son. Bands tooted, crowds cheered, and friends and relatives rushed forward to be crushed in his warm abraco (hug). Oswaldo Aranha, president of the General Assembly of the United Nations, was back home...
...England's most unpredictable football outfits in the giant New Haven saucer fluds the gentlemen of the press box in their usual position concerning the outcome. A small but hardy band is way out on a limb stringing along with the Crimson, while the more conservative elements hug the trunk of the arbor prognosticoris and give the Bulldog a slim but definite hug the trunk of the arbor prognosticoris and give the Bulldog a slim but definite margin...
...tone was set by U.S. Delegate Arthur Vandenberg. "Señor Presidente y amigos," he began (after that he relapsed into English). Before the session was over, Argentine Delegate Pascual La Rosa strode clear across the Quitandinha's salmon-pink conference salon to hug the Senator in a warm Latin abrazo. The latest U.S.-Argentine dispute had dissolved in love & kisses. The tracks were cleared for the signing of the Inter-American Defense Treaty when President Truman reaches Rio this week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Against a background of pythons, armadilloes, vampire-bats, and other interesting fauna, the protagonists of "Jungle Virgin" give a new, exciting, neolithic twist to the love-triangle, the title character keeping her dubious claim largely because the outside corner, a real cad, confines himself to the oldfashioned bear hug. Tita, an uncommonly puny hero, though ferocious enough when need be, finally finds the villain making advances in a tree, after having kidnapped a baby elephant. He makes a brilliant tackle, and all ends happily when the villain falls into the paws of a conveniently waiting leopard. As far as anyone...
...longer hug the illusion that our processes of selective admission bring us the ablest young men. . . . We are all rich men's colleges. Much as we hate to admit it, there is much less equality of opportunity for education in America than in the Soviet Union...