Word: hails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alma Mater, hail to thee...
...idea of violence is not all that remote; in the past month, some 100 persons have died as a result of electoral quarrels. Nevertheless, Indira does not shrink from the huge, open-air rallies that are the mainstay of an Indian campaign. In Hyderabad last week, a hail of shoes and stones was aimed at the rostrum as she spoke. None of the missiles struck her, and Indira, unshaken, inquired: "Has someone opened a new sandal shop in Hyderabad? If so, he must be making a fortune...
Late and Broke. The development problems quickly escalated beyond Rolls' calculations. To keep the engine's weight down. Rolls engineers planned to make the RB-211's fan blades out of lightweight carbon fibers. But the fibers could not stand the crunch when hail or birds were sucked into the 7-ft. fans. Last April, Rolls managers decided to keep working on the fibers but to forge the fan blades for the first few engines from titanium; this meant that they had two expensive development programs going. As time to deliver the engines ran short, Rolls started...
Group art, especially the work of primitive societies, assumes the character of communal art, a sharing of human existences. Individual art, like the works of Florence at its haughtiest, can hail the piece of work that is a man or, in less boastful moments can dramatize to beings of a fragmented century the brutal and atavistic parts of our existence, witness "Guernica...
...flaunted his strategy time and again: under the guise of Vietnamization, he will sanitize the war by withdrawing American troops and reducing American casualties, while turning the people of Indochina-all of them-into cannon fodder, forcing them to hunt and kill each other beneath a hail of American bombs...