Word: haile
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...project had its drawbacks. First, no one had ever gone broke underestimating America's hunger for good verse. Second, even if acceptable, bill-paying poetry was available, Harriet Monroe seemed singularly ill-equipped to find it. Her own best efforts in the field amounted to little but boosterism: "Hail to thee, fair Chicago! On thy brow/ America, thy mother, lays a crown...
...value of the work because a bonding company call would have jeopardized his future bonding. Francis A. Lawton, assistant dean for facilities, says that it is normal procedure for Harvard to call in the bonding company in the sort of situation that arose in the construction of the dining hail, but he refused to comment any further in the event that legal claims arise...
...Presidents have done as bad as he ever did." But a friend of hers was not so sure. "He wouldn't ever want to run for public office again," she said. "He should just lead a quiet life from now on." Four satin-shirted high school musicians played Hail to the Chief. Nixon plunged into the crowd, pressing flesh, absorbing adulation like a man breaking a long fast...
...Mondale put Miller on a short list of potential successors at the Fed. Carter, aware that dumping the conservative Burns might frighten bankers and industrialists who already mistrusted the President's economic judgment, was looking for a progressive corporate chief?preferably a Democrat?whom Burns' admirers in "business could hail as one of their...
They covered the whole face of the earth, wasting all things. The grass of the earth was devoured, and whatsoever fruits were on the trees which the hail had left. And there remained not anything that was green on the trees, or in the herbs of the earth in all Egypt...