Word: hail
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Hizballah, the Shi'ite Muslim Party of God, arrived publicly on the Middle East scene a decade ago in a hail of gunfire: young fighters, armed with grenades and shouting "Allahu Akbar!" captured an invading Israeli armored personnel carrier near Beirut in June 1982 and paraded it through the city. They took their name from a verse in the Koran, "Lo, the Party of God, they are victorious," and their money, weapons and inspiration from fundamentalist sponsors in Tehran...
Fortunately, that joke--the aliens vs. American culture thing--works. Aykroyd is Beldar and Curtin his wife Prymaat. They hail from Remulak, a planet many zerls away (that's 2.17 light years) which rotates around the Black Hole (the center of its binary system...
...last week's action in Mogadishu. Under the command of a Turkish general who was advised by a retired U.S. admiral, U.N. Special Envoy Jonathan Howe, troops from five countries set about destroying the power base of Somalia's most notorious warlord, General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, beneath a hail of missile fire and cannon bursts from helicopter gunships overhead. Troops from the U.S., Pakistan, Morocco, France and Italy searched for Aidid. Prodded by Washington, the U.N. wanted to punish him for ordering an attack June 5 that killed 23 blue-helmeted U.N. peacekeepers from Pakistan. By last weekend, under authority...
Some other occurrences were less serious but still crabbed their share of attention, such as the Halloween protest. Last July, Rudenstine was met at the airport by union members bearing flowers and playing "Hail to the Chief" on kazoos. At the Game against Yale, football spectators were treated to the sight of a plane drawing a banner behind it reading, "Harvard Works Because...
...know what it's like in that confessional?" he rhetorically asks Jeffrey, a Manhattan actor-waiter whom the priest has vamped in St. Patrick's Cathedral. " 'Father, I've had impure thoughts about my soccer coach.' Where are the Polaroids? What am I, a mind reader? Say six Hail Marys and bring me his shorts...