Word: haile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...temporarily disconnected. He went on: "That was one of the most dramatic scenes I have ever seen. . . . Firing started all over the place. . . . General de Gaulle was trying to control the crowds rushing into the cathedral. He walked straight ahead into what appeared to me to be a hail of fire. . . . But he went straight ahead without hesitation, his shoulders flung back, and walked right down the center aisle, even while the bullets were pouring about him. It was the most extraordinary example of courage I have ever seen. . . . There were bangs, flashes all about him, yet he seemed...
...Hail the Conquering Hero (Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, William Demarest; TIME...
...farmers the outlook was fabulously bright. The Agriculture Department reported mounting damage by drought to crops in the East Central states, but for most of the U.S. the weather had been near-perfect and yields were high. In Montana-as in Canada-last week a roaring wind-&-hail storm streaked for 100 miles through the southeastern counties, ripped barns to kindling, and flattened fields of wheat just as the dumfounded farmers were ready to thresh. Estimated loss: 2½ million bushels of wheat...
...Hail the Conquering Hero (Paramount), the newest cinematic caprice from Preston Sturges (The Great McGinty, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek), beats a satirical tattoo on the American small town. But it tells a story so touching, so chock-full of human frailties and so rich in homely detail that it achieves a reality transcending the limitations of its familiar slapstick...
What happens when six real Marines take Woodrow in hand and forcibly escort him home, his ill-fitting uniform bristling with extemporaneous decorations, is the stuff which makes Hail the Conquering Hero one of the year's most ingratiating pictures. When grateful townspeople solemnly burn the mortgage on the old Truesmith homestead and make plans to erect a suitable monument in the town square, Woodrow's misery seems to have reached its bearable limit. But it touches new depths when, in one of the most uproarious political campaigns in cinema history, the desperately reluctant Woodrow is nominated...