Word: hails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME and other once sensible voices hail this rapprochement with mainland China as a coup for Nixon? It is the long-overdue attempt to correct an absurd situation of our own making. Other heads of state have recognized the reality of the People's Republic of China, but none has been credited with a diplomatic victory...
...spreading tree. Be-tjak (three-wheeled ricksha) drivers wore polo shirts imprinted with it. Practically every civil servant in the sprawling archipelago nation sported a button emblazoned with the symbol. Radio and television stations frequently played a song extolling the tree, traditional symbol of security, as the place "to hail while expecting the blessings...
Alma Mater, hail to thee...
...Follies, a mediocre musical, tried and tested by formula and dipped in commercialized nostalgia, appears on Broadway, and you hail it as a breakthrough composition [May 3]. I am intellectually affronted by this kind of premature journalism, which offers categorical answers to questions not even raised...
...McGuires have returned to Copenhagen, where he translates technical papers for an electronics firm, polishes his near-perfect Danish, and hopes to become a Danish citizen and get a teaching job. "As a person I am just happy," he says. "We Americans suffer from a tendency to hail what is one hundred percent, but nothing is ever one hundred percent, and life is absurd, and that is the way it should...