Word: hails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stop the 'Hail. G.E. does not plan to tinker with the whole U.S. atmosphere, but it has its eye on hailstorms, which do enormous damage to crops in certain parts of the country. Hail is formed when raindrops are sucked into rising currents in a thundercloud. They freeze high in the air, collide with supercooled water droplets, and grow into crop-slashing hailstones. Dr. Irving Langmuir proposes to charge the thunder-threatening air with silver iodide particles. Sucked up into the cloud, they will turn the supercooled droplets into snow before they can build up hailstones...
Unlike the discharged marine in Hail the Conquering Hero, who posed as a hero to save his mother disappointment, Warrant Officer Sugino had behaved courageously enough. But he had fallen down on the job of dying. Like Hobson at Santiago, he ran a block ship into the harbor's mouth and sank it. Then a Chinese boat rescued...
Numerous small boys on the street contribute to the confusion by calling "scramble," a cry calculated to bring a hail of currency from the passing trolley to be "scrambled" for by the eager bystanders, the resulting fracas being about as mild and gentle as a Boston College-Georgia Tech football game...
...Hail to the nation...
...heaviest losses in Europe's art museum had been architectural. Considering the hail of shot & shell, bomb and superbomb that pocked the face of Europe for six years, the treasures still surviving were a lot to be thankful for. But much of the best in Western civilization had been blown apart, and what was gone was irreplaceable...