Word: haile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...insides of a steam boiler in Chicago's Northwestern Station; the noise was terrific. A band was playing and some of the fellows and their wives were singing The Old Grey Mare and some more were singing Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here. Lean Jim Dowling bent over his tiny wife and yelled at her: "I'm not kidding. I'm just about sick with excitement. Think of all the wonderful things we're going...
...Northern Ireland, to swim the 25 miles across the North Channel to Scotland. He covered nearly half the distance in seven hours, but then the treacherous currents and high seas forced him to give up. Last week Tom tried again. Conditions were wretched: all night there were thunderstorms with hail and wind that whipped up four-foot waves; at dawn there were thick, swirling mists so that his escorts in motor boats sometimes lost sight of him. Fifteen hours and 25 minutes after he had left Donaghadee, Tom Blower plodded up the beach in a misty little cove five miles...
Italy was a different story. There were Communists there, particularly in the north, ready to shatter Little Eva's poise with shouted obscenities and angry demonstrations. There were tactless, unreconstructed Fascists, too willing to hail Argentina's best-forgotten wartime associations...
...Yale's President Charles Seymour (who reminded a Princeton ban quet audience that their university had been founded by seven Yalemen and one Harvardman). And among the scholars in their academic robes were the uniformed General Eisenhower and Admirals Leahy and Nimitz. The Marine Band burst into Hail to the Chief. Escorted by Princeton's President Harold W. Dodds, the President of the U.S. marched to the commencement platform (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...President was on hand to meet him. As the band struck up Hail to the Chief, they walked together over to the waiting microphones, posed for the cameramen, exchanged greetings. Said the President: "I am most happy to receive you back. I am very well pleased with what you have been doing. I know that when you make your report to the country the people will also be pleased...