Word: haile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...singers began with "Salutation", a greeting that went "Hail, Friends of Music". They proceeded through a program that ranged from old English folk songs and Negro spirituals to Rodgers and Hamerstein ditties...
...hand, at the Statler. Warned in time's nick that the President was coming, League Commandant Clay Nixon, of Seattle, had ordered: "No wisecracks will be tolerated . . . You will behave like marines." The convention's official bugler, 70-year-old Herbert Baldwin, tried to blow Hail to the Chief, but his upper dentures slipped out, so he just blew Attention. ("It was all I could do under the circumstances...
With the rest of his 19-year sentence for collaboration wiped out by amnesties, ailing, angry-eyed ex-Field Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, 68, stepped out of Rome's Montecelios Military Hospital into a hail of newspaper invective. From his villa east of Rome, the white-maned old "Lion of Neghelli" retorted to a columnist who had attacked him in the daily Il Paese. "I spit on your face a thousand times," he wrote. "You are a disgusting coward and I am sure you are very dirty...
...Dead. Michaelis (rhymes with quick hail us) had been in tight spots before. He took part in the Normandy assault, won a battlefield promotion to full colonel. During the airborne invasion of Holland in September 1944, he jumped at the head of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, was wounded twice in three days. During the Battle of the Bulge, he was chief of staff of the 101st...
Dark-haired, brown-eyed "Tex" Colbert, who was born in Oakwood, Texas and graduated from Harvard Law School, has been something like a boy wonder at Chrysler. A big, broad-shouldered, hail-fellow-well-met with a razor-sharp mind, Tex Colbert went to Detroit in 1933 from Manhattan's Rathbone, Perry, Kelley & Drye, Chrysler attorneys, and stayed there as resident attorney. In 1943, he got his first crack at production problems when Chrysler sent him to Chicago to unsnarl red tape entangling the Dodge aircraft engine plant, world's biggest. He did such a good job that...