Word: hail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most important houseplant on earth, it gets, one imagines, special attention, the perquisites of position. Perhaps the leaves are individually daubed and polished each evening, watered with Maryland spring water specially sluiced in through titanium pipes, pruned by Kyoto-trained specialists. Maybe an occasional Marine Band rendition of Hail to the Schefflera...
...SOLACE of a second debate: President Reagan now knows that his four-year string of verbal inanities isn't going to deflate his cozy 15-point advantage. This battle really is over. Hail to our doting, yet avuncular Chief...
Madison has never drawn his .357 magnum service revolver or needed the 12-gauge in the cab of his pickup. But it could happen any time. Once a fellow wildlife officer approached the cabin of two suspected poachers near Colorado Springs, and narrowly escaped a hail of bullets that set his pickup on fire...
...while 200 colleges are represented in the incoming class, 65 of the first year students hail from Harvard, making the College the largest sing contributor to the student body. Yale runs a distant second with slightly less than half that number enrolled...
Some 65 miles south of Nicaragua's border with Honduras, at a cluster of settlements known as Tasba Pri (Free Land), Sandinista officials hail what they describe as a model of revolutionary Indian development. Everything is new, from the tin-roofed wooden houses to the local schools and clinics. Equally new are the residents, some 8,500 Miskitos who were forcibly moved to the settlement two years ago from 42 villages near the Honduran border. A blanket of benign restrictions governs Tasba Pri; the residents are free to travel, for example, only after they apply for permission. Above...