Word: hails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...settled into the job and grown more comfortable with it. His eyes flash with pleased excitement when he scampers up onstage at the University of Missouri at St. Louis and the band thumps out chorus after chorus of Hail to the Chief, which he once banned as too imperial but reinstated when he realized the importance of such symbolism. As he talks about the serious challenges facing America, he also makes a salesman's pitch. "The next time you get ready to change cars and buy a new model, give those new American cars and those American automobile workers...
...despite defensive tenacity that kept the Big Green to four first downs in the second half and repeatedly provided Harvard with strong field position, the offense could not get untracked. Marion was forced to heave Hail Marys that landed in Dartmouth paws four times in the final quarter...
What he has found is an offensive system that has alternately exhilirated, frustrated but most often confused nearly a generation of Harvard football fans. Fans mock the Multiflex when Harvard loses, hail Restic as the great innovator when Harvard wins. Whatever the outcome, however, everyone has an opinion about the Multiflex--even though no one seems to know what it is, or even what the word means...
...business associate, and drove away from his luxurious villa in a suburb of the Paraguayan capital of Asunción. The limousine, followed by a backup car carrying three bodyguards, had traveled a mere five blocks when a Chevrolet pickup truck pulled up alongside, and unleashed a hail of automatic rifle fire. As the bodyguards returned the fire, a bazooka rocket, launched from the porch of a nearby house, hit the Somoza limousine broadside, tearing away the roof. The dictator, along with his companions, was killed instantly...
...Colonel George S. Patton Jr., 32, found himself trembling before a battle. Then he thought of all his martial ancestors looking down upon him. "I became calm at once," he recalls, "and saying aloud 'It is time for another Patton to die,' " he strode forward into a hail of fire. Brigadier John Seely turned his mind to boyhood sayings-"Death is better than dishonor" and "By Faith ye shall move mountains"-before leading a do-or-die attack. Once engaged in combat, men were often too absorbed to be frightened. When hit by shell splinters...