Word: haile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smothered in grey, impenetrable fog. Rain lashed at the canopy. The outside air temperature dropped. Comte continued to circle, nose down, while his plane climbed faster and faster-like a man moving upstairs while strolling slowly downward on a racing escalator. At 11,000 ft. the rain turned to hail that tore noisily at the wings. The airspeed indicator froze, and the rate-of-climb indicator stuck at 5 ft. per second. The needle of the glider's sealed barograph reached its limit at 27,000 ft. But the plane, bucking and pitching in the turbulent winds, kept...
Seattle's welcome to General Douglas MacArthur seemed almost unanimous as 300,000 turned out to cheer him. Seattle's farewell to MacArthur was angrily divided along party lines. Between hail & farewell, the general, in uniform, had delivered his sharpest attack to date on the Truman Administration...
This is a sizable job, for the Crimson joins from twenty to twenty-five meets a year. Opponents come from as far away as Michigan and California, but most hail from the Eastern seaboard...
...accordian player--accompanied their progress with some thumpy renditions of familiar tunes. One of the selections was the "Donkey Serenade," but the Republicans did not seem to notice this. But at 7:14 the head table of dignatories began to march in, and to the tune of "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here," Charles Francis Adams, Sinclair Weeks, Senators Saltonstall and Lodge, Robert Montgomery, and Senator Richard M. Nixon of California, among others, took their places...
Farewell & Hail. Referee Ruby Goldstein, without even bothering with the formality of a count, threw up his arms to signal the end of the fight. Joe was out. Joe was clearly finished. Rocky, in the first wild joy of victory, kept repeating over & over, as if unable to believe it himself: "I knocked him out! I knocked him out!" Later, when he fully realized that he had flattened the man who had not been knocked out since Max Schmeling did it 15 years ago, Rocky said the proper thing: "I'm glad I won, but I'm sorry...