Word: haile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Empire's ties that bind loosened a little more last week. Ceylon, smallest of the dominions, decided not to fly the British Union Jack or to play God Save the Queen at official functions. Ceylonese have a flag of their own and their own Anthem, Namo Namo Matha (Hail, Hail, Mother...
Last December, Ernest Spiers was summoned before the town magistrate for keeping Eva out of school. He too was blazing mad. "Nobody wants his child to go to school more than I do," he said. "She can go to school in hail, rain or snow, but as I dress her. When the east wind blew, the Queen put Princess Anne in slacks. When I put my daughter in slacks, I am prosecuted...
Since then, a distinguished company of piano players, from Paderewski and Rachmaninoff to Fats Waller and Jimmy Durante, have hailed their decision. In Carnegie Hall this week, an S.R.O. crowd met to hail some more. On stage stood ten Steinway concert grands, and to their keyboards came squads of concert pianists (among them: Alexander Brailowsky, Robert Casadesus) to crash out in triumphant unison The Star-Spangled Banner, Chopin's Polonaise in A Major, and The Stars and Stripes Forever. It was the most emphatic way anybody could think of to celebrate the zooth anniversary of the U.S. House...
...first few years, Brandau and Kooser seeded typical hail clouds, and no hail hit the valley's prize fruit. The skeptics called it coincidence. But, after three unspoiled harvests, the skeptics were almost convinced. Then, in August 1952, a hailstorm ripped the pear crop to shreds...
...fault, said the pilots: both planes were grounded for repairs. One month later they seeded a sky full of thunderheads. Hail fell again. This time the pilots explained that they had never claimed to have the equipment to handle such frontal storms...