Word: hugging
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Ronald Reagan image-management playbook. North Korea's secretive strongman shocked his guests and most observers Tuesday by not only showing up at the airport, but greeting South Korea's President Kim Dae Jung with a winning smile and a two-handed handshake - the Korean cultural equivalent of a hug. By opening the historic first-ever visit by a leader of one Korea to the other with that telegenic gesture, the Dear Leader has given Koreans on both sides of the 1953 cease-fire line an enduring image of reconciliation that will kindle hopes for the reunification of families divided...
Maya confided in Michele, who gave her a hug and told her things happen for a reason. "Don't worry about it," Michele remembers saying. "It's a setback, but it will give you a chance to think...
...hug and see you there...
Dillon communicates via e-mail; several computers, including one that can "speak" her written words; and a paper pad on which she writes exquisite script. She can still walk, and everywhere she goes, kids rush up to squeeze her hand or hug her. They know that she remains the same Mrs. Dillon, beloved for dressing up in costumes--not just for Halloween--and for putting sunflowers in every nook of the library...
...myriad racial difficulties and divisions, but eventually, at some dreamed-of point in the perhaps distant future, things would work their way out: we'd learn to love our neighbors; the Census form would be reduced to one box, human; and everybody from Compton, Calif., to Greenwich, Conn., would hug, link hands and sing Kum ba yah together...