Word: haile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woke up at 5:15 a.m. Sunday, put on my lucky shirt (a bright yellow t-shirt with OREGON emblazened in green across the front), shorts, and shoes, got some money for a cab, and went outside to hail a car to take me to the Public Library from where the buses would take the runners to the starting line on Staten Island...
...Hail the victors...
...hail Prefab Sprout's second album, STEVE McQUEEN. Imagine, if you dare, Aztec Camera with twice the accent plus lousier lyrics times silly Linda McCartney backround singing...
...their own antisatellite weapon, but it is primitive compared with the U.S. model. The Soviet ASAT is a 150-ft., 2-ton rocket designed to climb into orbit and chase down satellites around the earth. After closing with its target, the Soviet missile explodes, destroying the satellite in a hail of shrapnel. But while an F-15 can reach launching position within an hour of takeoff, the Soviets must wait for a target satellite to pass over their fixed missile launch pads, which could take up to twelve hours. The U.S. missile can reach its target within ten minutes...
...word Hispanic, to begin with, is a catchall term embracing new immigrants and some families that have been living in what is now the Southwestern U.S. for 300 years or more. It applies to people of white, black, Indian and, frequently, thoroughly mixed ancestry who hail from countries that sometimes seem to have little in common except historical traditions and the Spanish language itself, and even that gets a little confused at times. For example, the translation by someone from a country bordering the Caribbean for "I am waiting for the bus" might be taken by a native of South...