Word: haile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hail the victors...
Pananen and Thompson both hail from America's largest and least settled state--Alaska--where it is dark for as many as 20 hours a day in the winter and where temperatures drop as low as 60 degrees below zero. Pananen and Thompson are not alone at Harvard. They are two of the 13 Alaskans currently enrolled at the College. Migrating from towns such as North Pole and Copper Center, these students travel nearly 4000 miles to come to school. None of the 13 agrees exactly what it means to be an Alaskan at Harvard, but most are in accord...
...patrol boat Joshan approached any closer to the U.S. guided-missile cruiser Wainwright, Chandler warned the Iranian craft by radio, "it is my intention to sink you." The Joshan's reply came quickly in the form of a deadly antiship missile. Chandler immediately ordered his crew to fire a hail of aluminum chaff into the air, which deflected the missile by confusing its radar guidance system. Moments later a second ship in the U.S. gulf convoy, the frigate Simpson, unleashed an SM-1 missile. It scored a direct hit, sinking the Joshan, killing 15 Iranian crewmen and wounding...
...Hampshire and Iowa. Dukakis, fourth among likely Democratic voters in last month's TIME poll, reached the top of the list for the first time in a national survey. Gephardt rose from sixth place to third. Both fared relatively well on electability measurements. But before any Democrat starts humming Hail to the Chief, he should take note of the indecisiveness afflicting Democratic voters. Only one- third of them say they are certain about their present preferences. More than half say they are "only somewhat satisfied" or "not satisfied at all" with the current roster of candidates...
Devin "made a great save with four seconds to go," said the relieved Cleary. "I was saying 10 Our Fathers and 10 Hail Marys on that...