Word: hail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before Cornell back-up quarterback Dave Dase hooked up with wide receiver Shaun Hawkins for a last-minute Hail Mary touchdown pass last Saturday in Ithaca, the Harvard football team looked for all the world as if it was about to assume sole leadership of the Ivy race...
...campaign against Judge Bork is shrill, mean and anti-intellectual," a Wall Street Journal editorial commented typically. Critics of the Journal's editorial page often call it strident, narrow-minded and biased. Yet many of these critics hail the Journal's news pages for their tough coverage of the editorial page's most sacred cows and of corporate misdeeds...
Highlights of this first-day offensive fest was the performance of what has become known as the San Diego Connection. Freshman John Marshall and sophomore Nick Branca, who both hail from the San Diego area, pumped in 10 of the Crimson's 13 goals in the Villanova game...
Unlike the right-wing activists who hail Bork for his ideological bent, Reagan and his men have gone out of their way to present the nominee as a mainstream jurist who decides cases with a completely open mind. "If you want someone with Justice Powell's detachment and statesmanship," said the President in a speech last July, "you can't do better than Judge Bork." The White House distributed to key Senators a 70-page briefing book outlining many of Bork's rulings and proclaiming that the judge was a model practitioner of "judicial restraint...
...leaned past the seated President, a door burst open and a shot was fired at Jayewardene. The assistant caught the bullet in his back and collapsed, critically wounded. Then two grenades exploded, one bouncing on the table in front of the President before it landed twelve feet away. The hail of shrapnel sent officials scurrying for cover. "There was pandemonium," said Cabinet Minister Abdul Majeed. "The room was filled with smoke, and members were shouting all sorts of things...