Word: haile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over last year's, which was the highest ever. "Do not betray the faith we have in you, German farmer, to provide food for us," appealed the Field Marshal. "I give you a slogan for the production battle of 1940: Now more than ever! Ours is victory! Hail our Führer...
Superman comes on the air with a shrill, shrieking sound effect (combination of a high wind and a bomb whine, recorded in the Spanish war). Voices hail him with: "Up in the sky-look! It's a bird. . . . It's a plane. . . . It's SUPERMAN!" Superman or no superman, he has to watch his step on the radio. Mothers' clubs have their eyes on him, the Child Study Association of America feels that his occasional rocket & space ship jaunts are a bit too improbable. By radio's own war rules, he must remain neutral...
...district attorney once saved a Negro killer from a mob: "Of course, this bill will pass the House. . . . And I think I can see again . . . the plumed knight of the black people . . . astride a great white steed. ... an emblem of purity. ... All honor to the champion of Harlem. All hail the great white chieftain of the black man!" Contemptuous Joe Gavagan retorted with a newspaper account of the doings in Mr. Colmer's Mississippi, with particular reference to Guardsmen mobilized to prevent a lynching...