Word: hail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Revolution" was Nicolau Ceaucescu, ex-autocrat of Romania. By 'major', the longtime existence of a self-created cult of personality is implied. Construction teams never finished the huge residential complex that Ceaucescu had commissioned towards his own greater glory. His and his wife's brutal totalitarianism ended with a hail of bullets and mutilation of their corpses...
...season started off on a relatively good note. The team opened the year with a nice 11-7 win at Army, and then, after dropping a 12-11 overtime decision to Boston College in weather conditions alternating between hail and snow, traveled to Philadelphia to nab in impressive 14-13 overtime win over a tough Quaker squad...
...Hail to the Victors: No matter howdisappointing the ending was, the middle was sweetas honey. Maybe history will longer remember theovertime losses of Beanpot and St. Paul, but forone glorious weekend Harvard Hockey reginedcompletely supreme, and the 1994 ECAC Championshipwill remain justly memorialized in the BrightArena banners forever and ever...
...vice president himself chatted with classmates. Members of the Harvard University Band invited Gore to conduct them in "Hail to the Chief...
...graduated two months later, and, though I wrote for The Boston Globe and The Atlantic Monthly about anti-war demonstrations that followed--including the Days of Rage in Chicago, when the Weathermen self-destructed in hail of rocks and bottles--I knew that the fun was over...