Word: haile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dared to assume that George Bernard Shaw could be adequately covered in half a course. To all these good people, and to the Cottons and Mathers and Longfellows and Frosts, and to the Ivy League Colleges and the lesser lights, we offer our greetings for Thanksgiving Thursday. All hail to the well-basted Turkey! Let the gourmands sit up and the feasting begin! Desmond Stone...
Droughts stand far ahead of earth-quakes, hail storms, grasshopper invasions, and the other violences which constitute the natural hazards of life in the West, he said. Lack of water is so serious a problem that the West today lives solely off the drained snowfall on mountains 7000 feet above sea level, he added...
...became the world's first triple jet ace (16 MIGs in nine months of Korean combat), was killed about a year ago at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., when he crashed in a jet fighter he was testing. This is his film biography, and it declares a ringing hail and farewell to the hero, with all the domestic and military taradiddle that Hollywood finds necessary on such occasions. This time, unfortunately, the mixture contains a little more than the absolutely necessary amount of bad taste...
...Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer "Rab" Butler that Britons have coined a single phrase for them (Butskellism), he trounced Bevan at last year's election for party treasurer and is a cinch to do the same again at the next Labor conference in October. But Gaitskell is no hail-fellow well-met among the horny-handed men of Britain's labor unions. "If Labor is to retain its old spirit," explained one of its kingmakers, "it must have a good earthy leader-not a polished ex-Oxford...
...Meter. In Toledo, after he was picked up by Policemen Michael Donoher and Calvin Parton for speeding a taxi through several red lights, James O'Reilly admitted the cab was not his explained he tried to hail one, spotted an empty cab with its motor running, hopped in, headed for his destination...