Word: hails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five occupants slept and flushed them outdoors by spreading a pungent fumigant as a sort of psy-war comment on their personal hygiene. They regained the building. The nearest he came to disaster was the day he charged up in a panel truck and had to retreat under a hail of rocks, bricks and, he claims, a bullet through the side of the truck...
Meanwhile, back at the fort proper, Nixon last January unveiled the White House police in Student Prince-like uniforms allegedly inspired by his impressions of European palace guards. He modified those uniforms but launched the President's Trumpeteers to beef up the introductory ceremonies featuring "Hail to the Chief." Last June he shook up the Cabinet, causing columnist William S. White to say: "... the President is... openly reducing the institutional prestige and status of the Cabinet and drawing into the White House proper... the largest palace guard in history." Time's cover story last June 8, "Nixon's Palace Guard...
...comes the hyper-American backlash. George M! was a smash on the road and appeared again as an NBC-TV adaptation. The film Patton has grossed $9,000,000 in nine months. Last week the latest and most patriotic show yet, a musical revue titled So Proudly We Hail, was playing at-of all places -the Sahara Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip...
Instead of walking from the Yard to Memorial Hail you may soon be running on the "Elihu Yale track" or across the "Nathan Pusey Stadium" if Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci...
...outside world while nearly 5,000 armed police and carabinieri laid siege to it. At one point, two columns of cops in full riot regalia, spearheaded by bulldozers and a construction crane, charged into a district that had styled itself an independent "republic"; they were hurled back by a hail of bricks, bottles and Molotov cocktails...