Word: hailed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there are the Neo-Realists. They are unlikely to be as great an influence on the novel as the Symbolists were on poetry, but for more than five years they have been stirring excitement, adulation, outrage and despair. Admirers hail them as bold innovators who are breaking ground for the fiction of the future. Alarmists warn that if Gallic logic is pursued to its usual extreme, Neo-Realists' views and practices may lead the novel to wither away entirely...
...comedy interpolations in the South Shore production often prove humorous and tasteful, such as jailhouse monologue of Frosch, played broadly but brilliantly by Bernie West. Adele's embarrassingly inept behavior at the ball justifies itself by her status. But the folksy, hail-fellow-well met lyrics of Howard Dietz have no business being used in any production of Die Fledermaus which attempts to capture the flavor of the original or to offer any amount of the necessary stylization...
Sadoveanu's curiously dated writing style is most evident in Tales of War. Amidst a "hail of lead" and the "yelp" of guns, an army of "brave lads" heroically helps Rumania throw off the Turkish yoke. The time is 1877. All the soldiers talk like British guards officers. Yet Sadoveanu sometimes had the writing skill to make compelling even quite traditional reactions to old-fashioned war: soldiers' delight in a battlefront feast on stolen turkey; a young sergeant's awe at the presence of a beautiful woman in the convalescent hospital; the guilty confusion of victorious troopers...
...Benton of Missouri, Henry Clay of Kentucky, and 14 empty seats in the front row, reserved for the seven members of Fillmore's Cabinet and their wives. The Cabinet was off at the Russian ministry having dinner and soaking up exotic wines and vodka. Jenny Lind was singing Hail, Columbia when they swayed down the aisle and took their seats. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, Secretary of State, stood up drunkenly and sang along with her, while his wife tugged furiously at his long black tails...
Russin arrived in Los Angeles at 1 a.m. this morning, and was greeted by a huge delegation of seven students carrying a "Hail Harvard" sign. He toured Disneyland with several beautiful girls, and is staying, free of charge, at "the most luxurious motel I've ever seen in my life...