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Word: hails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...referees formally went on strike Monday, forcing the league to hire 70 replacements. The new referees hail from all parts of the hockey world, including college, the minors and various international leagues...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Milder, | Title: ECAC Referees to Stay Put | 11/18/1993 | See Source »

...contrast to the George's more worldly background, most residents apparently hail from the Boston area...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: Coming in off the Street | 11/13/1993 | See Source »

Chicken parts which are distributed by the company without being slaughtered may hail from as far Maryland and Delaware, Silver says...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: He Does Chicken Right | 10/30/1993 | See Source »

...weeks ago, Todd was back with more demands, including malpractice relief: a $250,000 cap on jury awards for pain and suffering. Magaziner resisted. "What about a $500,000 cap?" asked Magaziner. Todd hesitated, but later threw a Hail Mary: "Could we appear in the Rose Garden behind the President when he announces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill and Hill Clinton: Behind Closed Doors | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

...lies and says yes.) She also attends a cell meeting of the fanatically Catholic Legion of Mary. Espied by the legionnaires as a potential recruit, she is asked to help out at a catechism class for a gaggle of foulmouthed, streetwise little hoydens, whose recitation of the Hail Mary sounds "taunting and lewd, like a jeering chant from an angry crowd at a football game." After one lass gives a jaunty account of Christ's miracle of the loaves and fishes, Sister Keating, the teacher, asks, " 'And what do we call that, Jane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dirt From The Old Sod | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

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