Word: haile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hail-fellow straw-hat pomposity, passing out hot dogs and free seeds with a glad hand...
...week ended there was another interruption in the all-hail homecoming. Newspapers broke the story that Mrs. Truman has been on the Senate payroll since 1941, for the last two years at the top Senate clerk salary: $4,500 a year. Explained Harry Truman: "She is my chief adviser. I never write a speech without going over it with her. She takes care of my personal mail...
...days the 25,000 Chamorros on Guam* had quaked in their flimsy thatch houses or hidden in caves while U.S. aircraft, battleships, cruisers and destroy ers rained explosives on the first piece of U.S. territory captured by the Japanese. Liberation was coming, but first a hail of steel...
...night, with stubby pencils the Ford County farmers reckoned their profits, at a bumper prospect of 30 bu. an acre. They figured they would get $1.50 a bu., biggest price in a good year since 1919. By day, the farmers fretted over the things that could go wrong. Hail storms or heavy rain could lay whole fields flat. A spell of 100-degree heat might cause the grain to shatter. Some times insects scourged the land just before the harvest...
...Then Father Hoffmann got up. He walked calmly up there through the hail of machine-gun bullets, and in a little while he came back carrying the wounded man. He got his captain's bars and Silver Star for that. Three days before he stepped on the mine [this cost him his leg], he came back one morning, telling everyone that the German gunners were wild shots. One of their mortars, he asserted, had missed him by seven feet. That's the way he was, laughing, joking and kidding around, but really getting things done, too. He could march right...