Word: hailstorm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have four first balls," Veeck said, in a broad grin, "we have 20,000 more. Everybody wants to throw out a first ball, so I've bought all these harmless Styrofoam baseballs. You can throw one out yourself, if you'd like." After a slow, Styrofoam hailstorm, the Sox jumped ahead of the Boston Red Sox. Ralph Garr in left and Zisk in right misplayed fly balls, but Ken Brett pitched strongly, and Veeck's patchwork heroes won 5-2 before a noisy crowd of almost...
This may not sound very funny, but at off-Broadway's Cherry Lane Theater, a most nimble cast unleashes a hailstorm of laughter...
...companies that do business in South Africa have been under an unrelenting hailstorm of criticism from civil rights groups, labor unions, churchmen and Congressmen. Some critics have pressed the companies to pull out of the apartheid state altogether; others insist that they should remain and improve the lot of their nonwhite workers. Apparently the clamor has penetrated some important board rooms. At least 18 blue-chip corporations have sharply raised wages, fringe benefits and educational opportunities for black South Africans. And they accomplished these improvements with surprisingly little flak from the nation's segregationist establishment...