Word: hail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hail the American fringies, those young filmmakers who make something different out of next to nothing. These fine artists must also be slick salesmen. They scrounge for five, six, seven years to get funding -- because it's harder to raise money for a $90,000 no-star feature than it is for a $90 million Schwarzenepic -- and then scrape at the doors of independent distributors. They should win an Irving Thalberg award just for persistence...
...idea for outflanking Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard with the bold "Hail Mary" movement to the west, as described in loving detail by Schwarzkopf during his famous victory press conference, actually originated in the Pentagon, not with the general...
...remnant of the previous week's spontaneous noontime discussion, during which the two newest cowboys -- who hail not from Bozeman or Butte but from Tokyo and Ehime prefecture -- attempted to explain the geography of their native country. "Damn! 120 million people in a place the size of Montana," says Dillon native Jim Cherney, 28, as he looks at the map. "That's a lot of people...
...costs after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, travel companies watched in horror as air carriers' revenue-passenger miles for February plunged 26.8% internationally and 5.5% in the U.S. By mid-March, the firms realized that to surmount travelers' reluctance, they would have to launch their own version of the "Hail Mary" campaign that led the allies to victory in Iraq...
...allied air campaign began, a massive troop movement was secretly set in motion that would seal Saddam's fate. Fearing that a frontal assault on heavily dug-in Iraqi defenders could lead to thousands of allied casualties, Schwarzkopf launched the flanking maneuver he would later compare to the Hail Mary play -- the football maneuver in which a quarterback praying for a last-minute touchdown sends his receivers far off to one side and then deep into the end zone...