Word: hailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hail to Herbert Hoover for his head-clearing lecture on the United Nations [TIME, May 8], For those whose cries of pain followed, a volume of Grimm's Fairy Tales...
Playing It Safe. Waved off again, he bored back through incessant rain toward Florence. Between Florence and Bologna he struck snow and hail which slowed him down. At Bologna, brother Paolo, 19, who had been forced to quit when his brakes failed, begged Gianni, with his nine-minute lead, to play it safe. So, over the last 145 miles, Gianni held his Ferrari down to a conservative 105 m.p.h. on the straightaways until he saw the finish light in Brescia. Then he poured...
...VOTERS HAIL END OF DEMOCRATIC MISRULE...
...British chronicler, writing about King Henry V, came upon Shakespeare's Henry VI and Bedford's outcry: Hung be the heavens with black! and added, in his prose, "The heavens were hung with black when Henry died." Or, as if a dull reader quoted: Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, and commented: "Shelley says the skylark never was a bird...
Willie's predicament, and his way out, give Director John Ford and some able performers a chance to enrich Hollywood's current war cycle with what has been missing thus far: comedy and comment. Less cutting and vigorous but still strongly reminiscent of the early Preston (Hail the Conquering Hero) Sturges, the movie delightfully sasses Army brass, a small town's home-front foibles and the windy patriotism of the professional World War 1 veteran...