Word: hails
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Killer bees, it turns out, are not the most menacing marauders to hail from South America. Their less publicized cousins the fire ants are more widespread in the U.S., more destructive and, so far, deadlier. The antagonistic ants have been harassing people, mostly in the South, for decades -- ruining picnics, forcing the cancellation of high school football games, making small children afraid to venture into their backyards -- and the threat is getting worse than ever. In some areas the rapidly spreading ants are crowding out (or killing) other insects, lizards, birds and small mammals, knocking natural ecosystems completely...
Little chance, that is, until Lopez's court-appointed defense attorney decided that his client's case was hopeless enough to warrant a bold gamble. In a move that is about the closest an attorney ever gets to throwing a Hail Mary pass in the final two seconds of the Super Bowl, Jack Carter conceded that Lopez had indeed broken the law-and then went on to argue that the law itself was wrong. Thirty-seven months and two appeals later, the obscure public defender persuaded five Supreme Court Justices to overturn a law that several hundred legislators...
...should not hail Robert McNamara as a hero for denouncing the Vietnam War as a mistake. More than 58,000 Americans died there and they did not die for nothing. While the traitorous and cowardly peace protesters, McNamara's "honorable Americans," might have believed otherwise, America intervened to preserve the freedom and independence of South Vietnam and to stop Communist aggression--noble and just aims that we should not ignore. Further, North Vietnam received substantial support from the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, support that further justified American intervention...
Still, in the world of competitive tennis, Rueb's path to the pro ranks would hardly be considered conventional. Few professional tennis players arrive on the pro tour with four years of college play, and most of those who do hail from schools like UCLA--a traditional breeding ground for pro tennis talent...
...Greg were to come to this confessor, his penance would be 10 Hail Marys and an I.Q. test. As for Priest, it would be made to sit in sackcloth and ashes at the church door as a cautionary example to all filmmakers who truckle to noble sentiment...