Word: hailstorm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while afterward, Washington Coach Joe Gibbs waffled between the two, but by the conference championship game with Minnesota three weeks ago, he knew who his quarterback was. Actually, the players decided. Gibbs could see who moved them, in every way. When a hailstorm of Williams' incompletions fell against Minnesota, Schroeder fidgeted on the sidelines, but the coach never blinked. In San Diego, while Elway was envisioning his five titles, Williams was trying to answer the question "How long have you been a black quarterback?" (As far as he could recall, Williams seemed to turn black about the time he left...
...says Private Dror, his eyes nervously scanning the street. "There are no youngsters over twelve in sight. Hell, where have they disappeared to?" The five Israeli soldiers from the Nahal unit quickly slip down a narrow alley. Four Palestinian youths peek briefly from between two houses. Seconds later, a hailstorm of stones and metal pieces pelts the patrol. Hugging the walls, the unit breaks apart. When it reassembles, Dror, 20, is breathless. Three masked men had hit him with rocks. "The bastards knew very well I couldn't do anything to them," he mutters to TIME's Ron Ben-Yishai...
...right guard, Steinkuhler, is the quintessential Nebraska football player. Under the hometown column of the team roster, occasional entries from New Jersey and Texas, California, Colorado or even Connecticut are fairly obliterated in a hailstorm of small Nebraska towns. It reads like the appendix of an almanac: Plattsmouth, Scottsbluff, Bell wood, Fremont, Waterloo, Dix, Ponca, Shelby, Wahoo, Hildreth, Crete, Burr... Steinkuhler is from Burr...
Only Elvira escapes Scarface alive; every other character goes down in a hailstorm of bullets. It is this ferocity, plus the complementary fusillade of four-letter language (the commonest four-letter obscenity is, by conservative count, uttered 181 times), that originally won Scarface the poisonous X rating from the Motion Picture Association's ratings board. It was a bum rap and was overruled on appeal. Scarface is no fouler of mouth than Richard Pryor on a good day, and less graphic than the last three dozen splatter movies. It is a serious, often hilarious peek under the rock where...
...into a hundred pieces with one long loud blast, making everything you ever saw in a movie or a comicbook or one of your own daydreams fly apart, letting you know what both the heroes and the cowards really heard when death flew at them: WHHHHHHHONNNNNNK!" He describes a hailstorm in a forest: "Instead of whispering or talking, the woods now seemed alive with hokey B-movie jungle drums." At last they find the body, and Lachance speculates about how they must appear to the corpse, if it could see: "Like pallbearers in a horror movie...