Word: haile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baseball' s perennial hope, the new Willie Mays, arrives in a hail of home runs. Trumpets are blaring for Cincinnati' s Eric Davis...
...populated by immigrants from various countries--including Ireland. It is not entirely surprising, then, that some Australian cultural forms greatly resemble those of the Irish. One example of such cultural emulation is All Fools Day by one of Australia's most popular underground bands, the Saints. Although the Saints hail from down under, their latest musical effort would rather roam the green hills of a certain Northern land--preferably by the side of Van Morrison, Ireland's greatest singer...
...mother suspected the hidden crimes. British Novelist B.M. Gill has given the premise a sardonic twist: in Nursery Crimes, wicked little Zanny repeatedly confesses to several murders but is so widely disbelieved that she concludes her sins are minor, subject to a penance of three Hail Marys. At home, at school, in church and even among the police, grownups fail her. The story's most compelling relationship unfolds between Zanny and her adopted sister Dolly, who witnesses the first killing, of their younger brother. Dolly keeps her guard up but never raises a fuss: she wants Zanny's parents...
...What is the construction of two parking lots on the Southwest Side of Chicago supposed to prove? According to the legislation, the lots will "demonstrate methods of facilitating the transfer of passengers between different modes of transportation." But each of these projects has a zealous congressional defender ready to hail it as a boon rather than a boondoggle. Democratic Congressman William Lipinski is the man behind the $3 million Chicago parking lots, which are designed to serve a rapid-transit line that will not be completed until 1992. "The lots tie directly with the mass-transit line," Lipinski says. "There...
...students, who converged yesterday on the Boston Marriott hotel, hail from 44 high schools around the country and constitutes the largest model congress that a college hosts, said Co-President Andrew F. Schmid...