Word: smooches
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...long since ended. Now he jokes easily. Recently, on a flight between Chicago and Salt Lake City, he was confronted in the aisle by a woman carrying a baby. Kennedy grinned and told the reporters with him, "Hey, get this." He elaborately faked kissing the baby, with a loud smooch an inch from the infant's cheek. Then he collapsed laughing in his seat...
...middle-aged carpenter goes calling on a lady (Anna Manahan) with an outsize heart and a waist to match. Upstairs, her invalid mother sits clutching the bedclothes about her like a winding sheet, praying fanatically to St. Philomena, ringing a huge bell whenever the couple begin a furtive smooch. Marriage only makes things worse-until one day Carney spies a traumatic headline. Roaring drunk, he announces to the old crone that the Pope has quashed the cult of St. Philomena. Carney deposes a statue of the saint from its altar, insults his wife, and climbs into bed with his mother...
...pulling forward rather than looking back. He signed some more bills in private, met with Cabinet officials, and presided at his first postoperative public ceremony, signing the $320 million Highway Beautification Act, otherwise known as "Lady Bird's bill." The First Lady got the first pen-and a smooch. Johnson observed there was "no better medicine" for him than the unobstructed view of fall foliage on his ride back from the hospital...
...wore gloves-and not at all, in most countries, if she was unmarried. Nowadays, even in strait-laced Spain, girls who are barely old enough to hold up a strapless bra have their hands out. When it is enclosed in a glove, uninhibited males blithely peel it off or smooch the wrist instead. And now that the hand kiss has become democratic, it is bestowed alfresco, any time, any place, even when the recipient is on horseback or in church...
...well phrased." He rents a room that looks right into hers, makes friends with her family, pops over for dinner daily. But the closer he comes the more distant she be comes. One night at the cinema, overstimulated by Les Nouvelles de Fox Movietone, he manfully attempts to smooch. She brushes him away like a mosquito...