Word: hails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high time that the White House guards were given a fitting ceremonial uniform. The usual U.S. police uniform is exactly the same as that of a night watchman. All hail Graustark, Ruritania and Danilo-the Hart, Schaffner & Marx of the Nixon Administration...
...hail! The pregnant Blue Bird of Happiness has nested in the '70s! Who wants this finely feathered fowl, anyway? Will it be cheaper for the traveler? No, ticket taxes will go up. More comfortable? No, four abreast instead of three. Will it be faster? Yes, if you don't have any bag gage. Who will benefit from it? Not the American traveler. The 747 [Jan. 19] is one pregnant bird that should have used the Pill...
...moral ambiguity that enveloped it from the first. Great powers and small became involved in the conflict, frequently for questionable reasons. The Soviet Union, eager to regain a foothold in Black Africa, delivered arms to help crush a rebellion that Moscow would, in another context, have hastened to hail as a "just war of national liberation." Britain, worried about African balkanization, Soviet influence and its own oil interests, supplied weapons to the Nigerians. The British were also concerned with preserving a state that its colonial officers had nursed to nationhood...