Word: haile
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many South Africans, the scene brought back memories of another massacre, in which 69 blacks died in a withering hail of bullets outside the Sharpeville police station 13 years ago. The Sharpeville victims had been protesting the abusive passbook policy imposed on 16 million blacks in the name of apartheid by the ruling white minority government...
...Hail Minnesota...
...Your rah-rah piece on the North Star State [Aug. 13] evokes memories and nostalgia-principally for those marvelous lakes. Surely you stirred a million of us expatriate Gophers to sing one chorus of Hail! Minnesota. But there was one grievous error about the Minnesota mosquitoes: it is the dive bombers that are half the size of the native anopheles, not vice versa...
...went on in parochial school, it became a schoolday habit: the herd march into the pews for an afternoon of fidgeting or perhaps nervously inventing sins, waiting for one's turn in the dark confessional and the familiar-if not quite inevitable-"three Our Fathers; three Hail Marys." Sometimes the occasion happened to coincide with real sorrow, and even when it did not, the voice behind the screen was usually kind. But for too many, too often, confessing became just a routine...
...most awsome thing you'll have to face Freshman Week has got to be the registration line. As usual that debacle will occur at Memorial Hall, once the mess hail in which all Harvard men ate when they weren't dining in their chosen club. The line--even if you get there an hour before registration is slated to begin--will stretch for what seems like miles, and once inside, you'll be treated to your first real look at the Harvard bureaucracy...