Word: hails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just as surely as it woos them, spring rebuffs its admirers, slapping them with stinging hail, destructive tornadoes and rapacious rivers. After the worst winter on record, spring's capriciousness last week was especially cruel, endurable in some areas only because of the certainty that better days were just ahead...
April turned savage in Georgia, hurling a Southern Airways DC-9 to the ground under a barrage of hail, and killing 70 people. In Alabama, where twisting tornadoes leveled a middle-class suburb of Birmingham, 20 died...
...lady asked whether Carter's manner was more a return to simplicity or mediocrity. It is a delicate distinction. The wearing of neckties on certain occasions evolved out of respect for others. Trumpets were used for centuries in tribute to people and deeds. True, all those renditions of Hail to the Chief never made Richard Nixon a good or great man. But, damn it, whispers a military historian, Hail to the Chiefis an old rouser going back to the 19th century, which is used to lift spirits and tell people the President is there. The history of those honor...
...large segments of the public possessed by an almost Luddite aversion to change. That still seems true today. Witness the current international flap over whether the Concorde supersonic passenger jet will be allowed to land at New York City's John F. Kennedy airport. Supporters of the Concorde hail the sleek, needle-nosed jet as a revolutionary globe-shrinker. Meanwhile, legions of determined opponents damn it as a threat to their community's quality of life and a menace to the world's environment...
...applauded Carter's tone-setting use of symbols in his first Oval Office days. The low-key Inaugural speech, the walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, the televised chat in a sweater, the surprise visit to frozen Pittsburgh, putting Amy in a public school, cutting down on limousines, banning Hail to the Chief -all were seen as moving Carter closer to the people. "That spirit of mutuality, that feeling that all Americans are part of the Government and not apart from it, is a feeling that we have missed for years now," editorialized the Dallas Times Herald, which endorsed Ford...