Word: haile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure that all of life's dice are loaded; he has little faith in second chances, especially sexy ones. He advises Rowdy to go home to her insurance salesman, which indeed she does, but not before she sees Randy cut down in a hail of bullets...
...HAIL KERLUMBY...
Labor. "Radicals hail American workers as their neglected brothers-and hope to climb to political power on their backs. Reactionary extremists attack American unions as unnecessary or greedy-and hope to climb to wealth on their broken backs." Instead, Eisenhower pledged "a government that would give fair and just hearing to all labor's needs and problems." Communism & McCarthyism. "The first [extreme] attacks the danger with a zeal that takes no account of our civil liberties. It wounds the innocent as well as the guilty. It is a parody of righteous justice. That extreme I have firmly and explicitly...
...French secretariat, administration and gendarmarie, the complete elimination of French influence from government except in local bodies where there was a French minority. The French government replied with a program of reforms which provided for Arab representation in local and municipal government. Reform plans were submerged under a hail of protests from the 1) French colonials, who thought the Arabs were getting too much, and 2) the Arab nationalists, who thought they were not getting enough. France still believes a compromise possible. The French say one stumbling block is encouragement given to Arab ambitions by anticolonial sentiment...
Word spread quickly. Thousands gathered outside the Ballabhdas house. When at last the widow appeared behind her husband's bier, surrounded by a cortege of weeping women, the crowd beat gongs, threw flowers and fried corn kernels, and sent up frenzied shouts of "Sati Mata ki jai" (Hail to the faithful mother-wife). Business in Jaipur came to a standstill; almost a third of the town's population moved out to the cremation grounds...