Word: haile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fishing smacks and steamers erupted from the harbor, each bright with colored balloons and bunting, and from the upturned faces came cheers, whistles, shouts of "Long Live Bourguiba," and snatches of the Neo-Destour song: "We will die, we will die, but the country will live." Banners proclaimed: "Hail to Our Supreme Fighter." Bourguiba cried emotionally: "I'm coming back to a people that has found its soul...
...photographers for picturesand coordinated the storm coverage of two TIME staff correspondents, Don Connery of the Chicago Bureau on the ground, and Frank McCulloch overhead in a chartered plane from Dallas. Gart was still feeding copy to TIME in the small hours Saturday as a new storm lashed Wichita, hail rattled on the Eagle windows and the radio blared new tornado warnings...
...over India the Lohars converged on Chitor. In the great plain below the landship fortress, their 4,000 bullock carts were drawn up in huge circles like the covered wagons of American pioneers. Over their wagons flew tattered Rajput sun flags (symbolizing the god Rama) and banners reading, "Hail Emperor Nehru." Few of the tribesmen had ever heard of Prime Minister Nehru, but they knew that a great badshah (ruler) had offered to succor them at Chitor, a place they had always avoided in their wanderings...
...including two of Eden's brothers, Timothy and Nicholas.* Anthony, who joined the King's Royal Rifle Corps, at 19 became the youngest adjutant in the British army. In the mud of Ypres, he crawled out under the wire and brought back a wounded sergeant under a hail of German fire. He won Britain's Military Cross. Part of his subsequent appeal to the British electorate stems from Eden's status as one of "the lost generation"-those gallant young schoolboys whom fate and the nostalgic poetry of Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen transformed into tragic...
...chicken coop, two hand grenades arched through the night air, down among the circling dancers. The explosions toppled dancers like ninepins; 22 lay groaning and bloody on the bare earth. One 22-year-old girl was dead. The survivors dragged the wounded to shelter in the house amidst a hail of Sten gunfire. In the darkness the two attackers slipped off toward Egyptian-held Gaza, 14 miles away...