Word: hail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regret that he had not made it a better story. "What rankles most," he joked, "is reading the accurate reports that 'Riggan's yells' frightened off the thugs. It would have been more gratifying if the stories could have read: 'The thugs fled under a hail of blows...
...three of Ivyland gathered at Princeton to hail the university's retiring President Harold W. Dodds, 67. Two other famed prexies, Harvard's Dr. Nathan M. Pusey and Yale's Dr. A. Whitney Griswold came to honor Dodds with solemn praise, but the occasion also had its mortarboard merriment. Spoofing Princeton's miasmic weather of yore, Yale's Griswold asserted that four Princeton presidents had expired within five years back in the 1700s. Then he quoted from a letter, hopefully quilled by Princeton's trustees to a presidential prospect in 1766. The missive...
...Hail to the Chieftain. About the only buildings in sight that could qualify as architecture were some modern boxy structures put up by Europeans. But they were Mediterranean in style, not equatorial, and were made of concrete, which soaks up the sun's blasts all day and reradiates them all night. In addition, air conditioning could not be trusted, as Accra's sparse electric power often fails...
...Coretta heard a thud on the porch and thought it was a brick, nothing particularly frightening around the King home during that period. She and the friend moved to a back room to continue their conversation-and a dynamite bomb went off, filling the vacant living room with a hail of broken glass...
...last week, two local Moslem farmers passing through Mokhimpur were seized by villagers and beaten with sticks until, weak and bleeding at the feet of the sadhu, they consented to cry, "All Hail to the Hindu God Ramachandra." Released at last, they staggered away and called the police. Next day, five policemen on bicycles and an officer on horseback rode into Mokhimpur to interrupt a scene of nightmare revelry. The men dressed only in loin cloths, the women with their saris tucked up high above their knees, the Baghbhans were doing a wild dance around their sadhu, who himself...