Word: hails
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...seem an obvious reference to the Feb. 28 gun battle. The breaking of the sixth seal produces an earthquake, and Koresh has predicted one soon in the Waco area. Behind the seventh seal are seven angels who blow successively on trumpets, signaling all manner of calamities: a rain of hail, fire and blood; locusts arising from a bottomless pit to bite men, who wish for death to end their torment. Koresh, in a letter dictated to DeGuerin last Wednesday, said his writing "will cause the winds of God's wrath to be held back a little longer...
...eight Harvard players who hail from the Boston area, Wednesday's chance to play in Fenway against Boston University at the Beanpot Baseball Tournament was more than a mere baseball pilgrimage: it was (start the violins) the fulfillment of a childhood dream...
According to Susan K. Keller, who oversees the Peabody complexes for Harvard Real Estate (HRE), 80 percent of residents are students. The apartments' population has a strong international element. Keller says 65 percent of residents hail from foreign countries...
Despite the renewed violence, American officials said they were going ahead with plans to hand over command of the coalition to the U.N. next month. But they are eager to ease tensions quickly, to avoid the embarrassment of leaving Somalia in a hail of gunfire...
AMERICANS WERE NOT ACCUSTOMED to what so much of the world had already grown weary of: the sudden, deafening explosion of a car bomb, a hail of glass and debris, the screams of innocent victims followed by the wailing sirens of ambulances. Terrorism seemed like something that happened somewhere else -- and somewhere else a safe distance over the horizon...