Word: hail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Anthony Mann, 60, movie director, a onetime off-Broadway bit-player who rose to direct Broadway shows like 1936's So Proudly We Hail before going to Hollywood, where he turned out over 40 films of meticulous workmanship but uneven merit, including The Glenn Miller Story and El Cid; of a heart attack; in West Berlin...
...Senate's Republicans (who were 22 to 13 in favor of the treaty). Even Ev Dirksen finally confessed: "I'm not impervious to misconceptions." When the time came to vote, Dirksen left a hospital bed, where he was confined by fatigue, to cast his "aye" and hail the treaty as beneficial "to the people of the entire world...
...family, loves to have a good blub over their letters. To relieve the Manhattany, she often cooks up an enormous meal?one of her favorites is a lamb casserole crammed with raisins, garlic, apples, onions and lemons. She downs yoghurt by the pint, and has been heard to hail a taxi by imitating the shriek of a pewit?which she learned from a Northumbrian shepherd when she was nine years...
Heroes & Courtesans. Such turns of fortune are nothing new to Siqueiros, and no one seems less bothered about his politics than his fellow Mexicans. They hail him as the grand old man of the triumvirate (with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco) that launched the Mexican mural renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s. Throughout Mexico, he is today known as "El Maestro," and no sooner had the ribbon been cut than hundreds of Mexicans, from art students to aging revolutionary veterans,, swarmed through Chapultepec Castle's drafty corridors to get an early view of his handiwork...
Outmanned 3 to 1 and heavily outgunned, the 13,000-man French force trapped in the small North Vietnamese valley of Dienbienphu was slowly being decimated by the Viet Minh. The Communists, entrenched in the surrounding hills, kept up such a deadly hail of flak that resupply flights to the defenders were down to a dribble. In those bleak days of April 1954, only one thing could have saved the besieged garrison: American help. That help was denied-and, according to French-born Historian Bernard B. Fall, it was largely because of objections by then Senate Minority Leader Lyndon...