Word: haile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Battle Creek, 2,500 at Kalamazoo (about twice the crowd Stevenson drew) and 2,000 at Niles. Across Lake Michigan, in Chicago's Loop, more than 200,000-the biggest crowd to greet a visitor there since General Douglas MacArthur came home in 1951-thronged State Street to hail the Vice President...
...waved to big crowds in city streets and small crowds at country crossroads, changing pace to drop his upraised hands and bow gently from the waist to a group of nuns, or stopping solemnly to salute the colors of a high-school band. Nowhere was there a hail-the-conquering-hero quality to the welcome; everywhere the setting was warm, relaxed, assured, befitting the national mood that the President, more than anyone else, has created. "I am often asked," he said in Pittsburgh, "what is the difference between this country now and in 1952? . . . It is this . . . We are just...
Tuesday -- "Hail Columbia! Let's Give It to Them...
...when rotund Camille Pissarro walked into Paris' Cafe de la Nouvelle Athenes with his great prophet's beard streaming and his portfolio tucked under his arms, fellow artists would greet him with a shout, "Hail to Moses!" In fact, good-natured, soft-spoken Painter Pissarro's place in art was far more that of teacher, peacemaker and counselor than lawgiver. He was ten years older than most of the impressionist greats, and this induced in him a fatherly urge to take time off from his own painting to patch up quarrels, round up shows, hold together...
...Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles, that "the Godhead must contain the Mother as well as the Father." Dame Laurentia was outraged at the thought of deifying Mary, and took him to task. "You want me, as if it were a sort of penance, to say a lot of Hail Maries," he flashed back. "But I am always saying Hail, Mary! on my travels ... I say it in my own natural and sincere way when She turns up in the temples and tombs of Egypt and among the gods of Hindustan-Hallo, Mary! For you really cannot get away from...