Word: hailstorm
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Comment elsewhere in the Senate and House: "Screwy talk ... as balmy as Hitler's . . . nonsensical . . . mischievous." In a hailstorm of editorials, the U.S. press asked the General, with varying degrees of asperity, to confine himself to such remarks as "Forward, men" and "Open fire...
Time's Nick. In De Witt County, ILL., Farmer Carle Walker insured his crops against damage by hail. Twenty minutes later a hailstorm destroyed his corn and soybeans...
...mayor of Winston-Salem. - As London's famed, 300-acre Royal Botanic Gardens at Suburban Kew celebrated its centenary with unabated activity and attendance, doughty old Director Sir Arthur Hill chortled: "Hitler's bombs have failed to do as much damage as the disastrous hailstorm of 1879," announced that against the day when Hitler might ruin Kew's gardens with gas, he had provided gas masks for his rare orchids...
...home to more starvation. Down the long scale of disintegration he slips rung by rung. Three newspaper clippings end the book: one from Rochester. Minn, announcing the dollar-valuation of a human body's chemicals; one from Capetown, telling of a holocaust of storks killed in a freak hailstorm; one from Vienna, a sympathetic epitaph on Karl's suicide...
Hail In Richland County, Wis., Roy Ewing ran barefoot to his barn wrecked by a July hailstorm, stood ankle-deep in hail while freeing his cattle, had his feet frozen...