Word: haile
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fearing for the lives of those police trapped inside, the security forces, who initially numbered only 45, smashed through the gates and charged the rioters. Vastly outnumbered and exposed to a deadly hail of stones, the police resorted to live ammunition. Said police commissioner Yaacov Terner: "Their lives were in real danger. They had no other way but to respond the way they did." As further proof that the riot was premeditated, Israelis note that Palestinian leader Faisal Husseini -- later jailed for incitement -- was in the crowd...
...guide to the fellowships. I hope this article is a step towards a day, if not in our own lifetime, then perhaps in our childrens', when it will be as commonplace for a major fellowship winner to attend not just a University of Nebraska or Ole Miss, but to hail from our own Harvard College...
...city was still absorbing those horrors two weeks ago when Sean Healy, a prosecutor in the Bronx district attorney's office, was cut down by a hail of gunfire as he selected a package of doughnuts from the shelf of a neighborhood grocery. That same day Vander Beatty, a former political power in Brooklyn attempting a comeback by running for district leader, was shot to death in his campaign headquarters. The prime suspect, according to police, was a longtime friend who was allegedly angry over the manner in which a lawyer who had been recommended by Beatty had handled...
...East Germans are convinced. Kohl's campaign speech to the same Halle audience was interrupted by shouts of "liar" and a hail of tomatoes and eggs hurled by a group of leftist protesters. Security guards used umbrellas to deflect the missiles, and Kohl did his best to turn the incident to his advantage. "If you want to see the result of 40 years of communist rule," he said, "just look at these hooligans with blind rage in their faces. A vote for the Communists is a vote for violence and state terror...
...week wore on and Souter came to life, he was transmuted from a dazed and gray-faced gnome standing awkwardly beside the tall and tanned Bush into a Yankee original in the mold of astronauts Alan Shepard and Christa McAuliffe and the last Supreme Court Justice to hail from the Granite State, Harlan Fiske Stone. By choosing someone so hard to pigeonhole, indeed, someone from another era, Bush may have created the kind of philosophical gridlock he felt he needed to get his nominee swiftly approved. If Americans are lucky, they will also get the kind of Justice they need...