Word: hails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Poetry saved him. Recuperating slowly in a medical tent, he sat at the orderly's typewriter and pecked out his most personal and moving poems, the great Pisan Cantos. With eyes unsealed by shock, Pound finally saw himself as he was seen-a vain "beaten dog beneath the hail/ A swollen magpie in a fitful sun." He was flown back to the States to face trial for treason, but the case never came to judgment. Declared hopelessly insane. Pound was committed to a federal bedlam in the District of Columbia...
They once brought an organ into Watson Rink. Not a John Kiley-approved Hammond X-66, mind you, but a tinny little portable organ that squeaked out such inspiration as "Hail Bertagna" (Joe Bertagna, former Harvard goalie) and other favorites. It didn't last long, but it was amusing while it was around...
...outside the village of Whitecross, the bus was stopped by a group of masked, heavily armed men. The workers and their driver were lined up against the vehicle, and the lone Roman Catholic among them was sent away. The rest, all Protestants, were then gunned down in a withering hail of automatic fire. Ten died instantly. At week's end the badly wounded survivor remained in serious condition at a nearby hospital. In its methodical ruthlessness and cold-blooded efficiency, the slaughter was one of the worst episodes in Northern Ireland's tragic history...
...Great McGinty, 4:10, 7:30, and 10:50 p.m.; and Hail The Conquering Hero, 5:40 and 9:00 p.m., tonight only...
...wait. Echoed from within the visitor's locker room and out marched 20 piping Elis, chiming away their "Hail Yales". All this song and cheer seemed more like improvisational theater than a swim meet, but the Yale tunes seemed to bring luck. The Elis came out singing "We have Overcome," as they sunk a strong Radcliffe team 80-51 last night...