Word: hails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cops tried to blast through the walls, but the sniper shots kept coming. Finally, eleven hours after the violence had begun, one lone sniper darted under the glare of a helicopter spotlight, ran about 30 ft. in a zigzag pattern across the rooftop, and fell dead in a hail of police tracer bullets, his body riddled with more than 100 slugs...
...holiday, Jack Mooney, 31, father of three, headed for the night shift at the Rolls-Royce plant on the outskirts of Belfast. As he and five fellow workers who were riding in a blue Volkswagen pulled into the employees' parking lot, ambushers opened fire. A hail of 20 bullets struck the crammed car. Mooney was killed and two of his colleagues were wounded...
...message from the "We Try Harder" folks proved correct. The Redskins never recovered, though they scored with two minutes remaining on a fluke play. The Washington fans emerged from the crowd for the first time in the afternoon as the band played "Hail to the Chief". But not enough time remained for the Skins to come back. The final score: 14-7, Miami...
Conditions. This scarcely veiled threat brought a hail of phone calls to OTP offices in Washington from worried station owners. They quickly learned that the proposed legislation offers them blandishments as well. The bill extends the duration of FCC licenses from three to five years and makes life easier for local stations at license-renewal time. Competing bids for a station's license, for example, would be entertained only after the Federal Communications Commission had revoked or failed to renew it. Out would go the current FCC criteria stipulating the proportion of generally unprofitable news and public-service broadcasting...
...Pierre is the second defensive back in three years to be named captain, and the third straight Harvard captain to hail from New England...