Word: haile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the patients sang Hail, Hail the Gang's All Here, State Education Inspector Albert A. Buchholz served the doctor with a summons to appear before the medical grievance committee of the State Department of Education. The charges: 1) operating a dispensary and clinic without a permit; 2) "falsely, fraudulently, deceitfully and unlawfully" allowing unlicensed persons to practice medicine in the clinic; 3) violating State law by advertising unethically in magazines...
Fight. That evening Jesse Jones went to a gala party of Washington's hail-fellow Alfalfa Club, but his heart was not in the fun. His Texas temper, tender from years of being left alone, still twitched and writhed. He bumped smack into the Washington Post's publisher, trim, high-domed Eugene Meyer...
...audacious American fighter-[Lieut. Edward] O'Hare, I learned later-dart recklessly into a torrential hail of flak . . . clip off a straggler, and then in leapfrog fashion shoot down at least two others. It couldn't have taken more than a minute or two. That was the last straw for the Japs...
Rotation of stars has also puzzled astronomers. Otto Struve of the University of Chicago weeded hypotheses down to this one : that stellar rotation too is caused by interstellar dust, colliding like hail stones with the stars. While the sun rotates with a velocity at its equator of only* Messier 51 in Canes Venatici (The Hounds) twelve miles per second, the stars of Aquila whirl at 9,360 miles per second. At such speeds, stars become unstable and shed rings of hot gas. Thus, as some stars are born of dust, others are destroyed...
...Power to Borrow. Sooner or later taxes become intolerable. But borrowing raises a new worry. With the national debt ($62.3 billions) already within easy hail of the limit ($65 billions), Chairman Doughton has the thankless job of asking Congress to raise the limit to $125 billions. Problem: not whether to borrow, but from whom...