Word: hugs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anything reporters in Egypt had ever seen. Fellaheen along the Nile streamed out of the fields, shouting that Naguib is the "Savior of Egypt, Savior of the Farmers, Gift of Allah." Hundreds of villagers crowded in front of Naguib's Chevrolet convertible and tried to climb in to hug him. The police had to use rifle butts to keep him from being loved to death. After 50 miles of this, the car was battered and scratched, one door almost ripped...
...winner, 3 and 2, and oldest U.S. Amateur champ of all time, tossed his blue cap high in the air. His wife Monica, who has never seen him play ("I'm bad luck"), rushed from the clubhouse radio to give him a hug. People kept yelling "Hi, Mr. Congressman!" and the photographers converged on the champ, shouting: "We've been waiting for a week." Said Jack, with a grin: "I've been waiting 21 years...
Sheppard ("Abdullah") King, who risked his Texas cotton-fortune inheritance by marrying Egyptian Shimmy Dancer Samia Gamal, brought his bride home to Houston to meet Mama for the first time. All went well. Nervous Samia got a hearty hug from her mother-in-law, who said, "I think she's charming...
...nation armies and made the announcement. "I do not want this to go out of the room," he said. For a moment there was complete silence. Then Britain's temperamental Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery delivered an impromptu eulogy, wound up by locking Ike in an affectionate bear hug, while the others roared, cheered and dabbed at their eyes. Ike broke away and started for the door. At the doorway he paused and clasped his hands over his head in a prizefighter's salute. Then, digging for his own handkerchief, he swung out the door and into U.S. politics...
...administration. He has written a book in which he seriously questions whether the U.S. can win an all-out war with Russia. Tsuji wants U.S. arms but he does not want to be bound in partnership with the U.S. Says he: "I like you, but don't hug me too tight...