Word: haile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Band struck up a few marches until William Dawes could arrive. With a clattering of hoofs and a hail of laughter, he finally appeared, followed by a particularly red-faced Redcoat. In the midst of the resulting confusion, the placard-bearers' chieftan, Roy Gootenberg, was protesting vigorously the police's attempt to remove his signs. "Freedom of speech...freedom of opinion...freedom of speech..."plus a long list of Supreme Court cases was all that this reporter could hear above the din of William Dawes' revisitation. The placard wavers rushed out into Garden Street still citing court decisions, raised their...
...lastly drill. Between drills we drill . . ."), and the discipline was generally not too severe. In battle, Billy proved his salt. He did not have the dash and gallantry of Author Wiley's Johnny Reb. but sometimes he could pull up his coat collar and walk into a hail of bullets "the same as I would go through a storm of hail and wind." He did not go looking for trouble. "The diferance between dyeing today and tomorrow is not much," wrote one boy, "but we all prefer tomorrow." "We went out a Skouting yesterday," one boy told his father...
...robber forced Captive Madden into his car. But Madden was hit by shotgun pellets, and his tires were flattened by bullets. The holdup man leaped out, dodged to a pickup truck in a hail of lead, got into it and drove it into a ditch. He fell out, bleeding from two serious wounds and peppered with innumerable shotgun pellets, ran 20 yds. and surrendered to a deputy sheriff...
Forecast. In St. Louis, Space Cadet Harold Buren, 9, projecting a trip to the moon in 1970, asked the local weather bureau for a prediction, was informed: "No rain, no hail, no sleet. High daytime temperature, 250°; low nighttime temperature...
...Connie took over. The assault party was pinned down by intense fire from automatic weapons in fortified emplacements above them. Connie crept forward, knocked out the first two positions with hand grenades, and organized a new assault. He was badly wounded. The platoon was driven back by a hail of explosives. Undaunted, he regrouped his men and led them forward once more. They were driven back again...