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Word: hugs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Somewhere around Savannah, you begin to smell it. You peel yourself out of the car for a Mountain Dew while the gas man pumps it full of unleaded, and it grabs you like a Dick Butkus bear-hug. You smell it, you taste it, and then you feel it: summer is coming--you are going to Florida...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Join the Pilgrimage! Florida Over Spring Break | 3/14/1981 | See Source »

...Hara knew the bunny-hug, the turkey trot, the tango, the fox trot and the polka, and had a good sense of humor. Thus, the woman who earned his wrath at the speakeasy might have earned another reward in different circumstances...

Author: By Robert F. Deitch, | Title: A Rage To Live | 2/25/1981 | See Source »

...Crimson netminder turned away 15 Boston College shots last night at the Boston Garden, leading his icemates to a stick-breaking, rafter-shaking, ice-melting, give-me-a-hug 2-0 victory, for the Crimson's first Beanpot win since...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: Most Valuable: Wade Lau | 2/10/1981 | See Source »

...chance of delivering that hug was made possible by the patience and persistence of the outgoing President and his tireless diplomats. They labored through marathon meetings in Washington and Algiers, as other key actors in the drama, including turbaned Iranian clerics and pin-striped international bankers, met in London, New York, Tehran and Washington. As the negotiations intensified, the gulf between the U.S. and the ever unpredictable government of Iran, ruled by the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, an 80-year-old mystic leader, had looked too wide to be breached readily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hostage Breakthrough | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

...bout is over. Stiles is in the opposite corner giving Moldanado a hug. This impossibly fat guy from the Stiles' team is follwoing him with the K-Mart robe, but Stiles is all over the place. He hugs his trainer. He goes back to hug Moldanado again. The decision comes: in six rounds, by unanimous decision, Stiles. He goes and hugs Moldanado again. The fat guy is still trying to get the robe on him. Stiles seems happy he has won. Secretly he must be ashamed. He has not landed a solid punch all night...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: La Nause'e In The Ring | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

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