Word: hailed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four of the 16 patients are Negroes, and nine of the twelve white soldiers hail from the South. There has not been one instance of racial friction since I have been here. We play cards together, borrow each other's books and stationery, bum each other's cigarets...
...They freeze in storms of ice-cold rain and hail. Their feet burn and smart horribly from endless marching through mud. Their stomachs growl because food arrives irregularly and often must be dropped from airplanes. Even ammunition is often scarce when the supply trains cannot proceed because of enemy activity or bottomless mud on the roads...
...should be tolerant when conversing with Bostonians, particularly if you hail from the Great Plains or beyond. If you find a native who has been west of Pittsburg, you will have to explain carefully that Los Angeles is a few hundred miles the other side of Chicago and that Utah and Idaho and Nevada are not allied nations. You will have to demonstrate patiently that illiteracy is not on the increase in your home state, that your college has a library and a few qualified professors, that the Pony Express is not the only available means of communication...
They opened up with a hail of machine-gun fire, shooting from cellars, from shell holes, from behind any pile of stone or debris. There was no way to discourage them except the classical infantry way: a personal bullet, a private grenade, an individual bayonet thrust...
...news out of a small Manhattan Congressional election last week was that the Negro seems to be turning against the New Deal. The news was enough to make GOPsters hail a local, narrow Democratic victory as a national Republican triumph...