Word: beak
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...knotted longshoreman's arms. He used to have a pronounced Australian accent (an exaggerated Cockney) but has now lost most of it, speaking in a soft, low, emphatic voice. On the platform he is restrained, though he sometimes stops, tosses back his brown hair, pushing his beak forward as if into the wind at sea on lookout. He demonstrated his spellbinding platform power at a Madison Square Garden rally last year when, near the end of a long program, he held a tired crowd of 15,000 for a full hour extemporaneously. His suspicious, self-assured attitude comes naturally...
...single sitting one morning last week the new British Cabinet of beak-nosed, decisive Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resolved that the way to end 17 years of bickering and battle between Jews and Arabs in Palestine is to carve them up into separate countries. Protestant and Catholic Irish were thus carved asunder in 1921, and although objectors to this drastic British measure did not stop at murder, strife has subsided between Protestant Northern Ireland and the Catholic Irish Free State (see col. 2). The Cabinet last week sent Minister of Colonies William Ormsby-Gore directly over to the House...
Whether the Egyptian Parliament accepts or rejects the King's nomination depends largely on Wafd's interpretation of Prince Mohammed Ali's personality and prejudices. An impressive, beak-nosed, 61-year-old bachelor, Prince Mohammed Ali runs one of the world's biggest stud farms for Arabian horses, is the author of Breeding of Arabian Horses. A worldly, amiable and enigmatic man, he is sometimes tagged as pro-British. On the other hand, he has many friends among Wafd politicians...
...powder after having dallied with a shepherdess and field ignominiously from the scions of the hated clan. For this he is condemned by his father, the head of the clan of Glouer, to wander about the ancestral castle until he, Murdoch Glouer the ghost, can tweek the beak of a McLagen and force him to admit that any fifty of his clan can be thrashed with ease by a lone Glouer...
...revealed an attempt to cope with a major theme, relating in varied verse forms the narrative of seven brothers whose lives represented, as they plunged toward their respective dooms, the seven Capital Sins. Beginning with a prolog describing the death of the father-"This giant man, this grey old beak, disastrous Granite of God that lay upon them always"-that released them into the world, the poem recounts Jared's death from avarice, Abel's from gluttony, Jasper's from pride...