Word: hail
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Regulation ended with the score tied 14-14 after Holy Cross elected to try a Hail Mary instead of a long field goal attempt. Menick got the chance to make amends...
...Hail to the Chief...
...Wooster School, from which we both hail, looks a lot like the prep schools that feed students to Ivy League universities with machine-like precision. The similarities end there. It's a good school, but while Harvard professes to be in the business of ferreting out "Veritas," Wooster strives for something a little closer to kindness. The school's motto, familiar to Christians and Communists alike reads, translated from Latin, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." It doesn't always work, but they try. Backed up by small class sizes as well...
When Gates first arrived at Harvard, he drew upa "fantasy list" of intellectuals he would like toattract for the Afro-American studies departmenthere. West figured prominently on the list, butGates says he likened attracting him to "throwinga Hail Mary pass...
...passengers to disembark in waist-deep water. But aside from the horror, few hints have emerged of exactly what went wrong. The flight had been delayed two hours in Dallas, and arrived in Little Rock at the wrong time: Just as a storm began buffeting the airport with lightning, hail and winds gusting to 75 mph. Yet no distress call from the plane reached the tower. National Transportation Safety Board investigators are on the scene, and they would seem to have one question to ask: Why did Flight 1420 attempt a landing...