Word: hugs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...century ago. From across the room a bulky man offered a greeting: "Do you remember me?" For a long moment Kraber stared, searching his mental archives, but the name eluded him. Softly the other man identified himself as Mordecai Gorelik. Kraber cried out, "Max!" and they fell into a hug that, they reckoned, embraced some 40 bygone years...
...badly, I told her I'd go tell the police. She said, 'Go, they'll just put you into the darkest prison.' So I stayed. When my breasts started growing at 13, she beat me across the chest until I fainted. Then she'd hug me and ask forgiveness. When I turned 16, a day didn't pass without my mother calling me a whore, and saying that I'd end up in Potter's Field, dead, forgotten and damned for all eternity. Most kids have nightmares about being taken away from...
Arriving at the rain-drenched airport near La Paz, a quiet resort in Southern Baja California, Reagan shook hands with De la Madrid and then positioned himself to receive a Mexican abrazo. But De la Madrid firmly caught Reagan by the lower arm and avoided the traditional Latin hug. "We want to appear more serious, more dignified, not folkloric," a Mexican aide later explained. Diplomats described the subsequent talks as "useful," but although there were signs of movement behind the scenes on a number of issues, both sides apparently agreed to disagree about Central America...
...practiced what he preached. As the personal acquaintance of twelve Presidents, Lippmann was the leading exemplar of what Columnist Colgman McCarthy calls "hobnobbery journalism." But he had become disillusioned in his 70s when Lyndon Johnson, with flattery and lies, with private lunches and birthday gifts, had tried to bear-hug Lippmann into supporting the Viet Nam War. "Every time I pull my chair nearer that guy," L.B.J. complained, "he pulls his chair farther away...
...years, Chicago and Los Angeles have been locked in a kind of wrestling match over which one is second only to New York in size and influence. But Chicago may now be caught in a Golden State bear hug from which it cannot escape. Statistically speaking, the Windy City may no longer be America's second city. A new population tally, conducted by Los Angeles officials but thought to be reliable, puts Los Angeles ahead by 36,222, or 3,041,294 to Chicago's 3,005,072. Not imperiled is Chicago's enduring sense of superiority...