Word: hailed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...auspicious. Nikita Khrushchev was deposed and out of sight, but his invisible presence still badly cramped the style of the new Moscow team. When Premier Aleksei Kosygin and his teammate Leonid Brezhnev, new head of the Communist Party, made their first joint public appearance in Red Square to hail Russia's three most recent cosmonauts, applause from the onlookers was markedly listless. Visibly ruffled, Brezhnev stared down on them and muttered: "K chortu." That meant "Go to the devil," and because someone had forgotten to turn off the mike, the words went out loud and clear...
...feted with speeches filled with mentions of Pascal, Racine, Montesquieu, Rousseau and Jeanne d'Arc. He entertained the rich and wellborn at receptions, and nodded and waved with friendly but aloof dignity to the huge crowds that jammed the streets and the squares to see him and hail...
...States in any city is an extrordinary ceremony. The airport closes to all other planes about a half hour before he lands, or, if it is large enough, sets aside a huge area for the three planes which bring the Presidential party. At "very stop high school bands play "Hail to the Chief," "Hello, Lyndon," and "The Yellow Rose of Texas." By the end of the day, Lady Bird had been given about 100 yellow roses...
...time. He could draw his .45 faster than any thug, could shoot so straight that crooks often surrendered when they heard he was after them. Bullets missed him so often that it seemed they would never learn the way. He once climbed unscathed up a hill through a hail of slugs to collar two pistol-happy punks, another time managed to arrest a gunman who emptied his revolver at him from point-blank range...
...giving the Freedom Party two at-large seats on the floor. Under intense Presidential pressure, New York and California, the core of the FDP's support, agreed to the proposal. In a hurried caucus of the Freedom delegation, Rauh and King urged the Party to accept the compromise and hail it as a great victory...