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Word: haile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carol and Magda fled Rumania under a hail of Nazi bullets. They lived quietly in Mexico for a while, then went to Brazil. There Magda took ill with pernicious anemia, and doctors thought she was dying. In their Copacabana Palace suite in 1947, Carol at long last married Elena Lupescu, whom he proclaimed Princess Elena. When Magda recovered, they went to live, a portly, aging couple in Estoril in Portugal, haven of exiled royalties. There last week, with Magda beside him and few to mourn him, Carol, 59, died of a stroke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Happy as a Milkman | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green, The night above the dingle starry, Time let me hail and climb Golden in the heydays of his eyes, And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves Trail with daisies and barley Down the rivers of the windfall light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A DYLAN THOMAS SAMPLER | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

...their hands up, as if to surrender. Suddenly, from a closed fist, one of the Chinese flipped a hand grenade. The grenade killed the Korean. Stanley hoisted his 20-lb. rifle to his shoulder and killed both Chinese with a single burst. Then, as burp gun slugs and a hail of grenades fell around him, he began to creep back down the slope, looking for cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: The Lord & Private Stanley | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

Born. To Ella Raines, 31, cinemactress (Hail the Conquering Hero, Brute Force), and her second husband, Air Force Lieut. Colonel Robin Olds, 30: their second child, second daughter; in Cornwall, N.Y. Name: Susan, Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 23, 1953 | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

...trooper's whispered words, relayed to Westport police barracks, started Connecticut's biggest man hunt. The speeder, a 20-year-old Arlington, Mass, parole violator named John Xavier Donahue, was sighted that night as he drove into Greenwich, was pursued amid a hail of sub-machinegun bullets and driven to cover in a garage loft. Only minutes later he came out, calling "Don't shoot! I surrender!" By that time Trooper Morse had been dead for four hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Trooper's Last Words | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

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