Word: beaked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mornin' they try t' hang th' torpedoin' on me, but the [crooked] beak gets th' office, an' comes down. He goes f'r me, puts me on th' bricks, an' hands me two grand an' tells me t' breeze th' burg; which I does. Well, when I hits Frisco th' bulls know me. They frisk me an' pipes the case dough. I tries t' tell 'em it's square jack, but they don't fall, an' th' nex' thing...
Smooth-talking, never at a loss for words, natty, beak-nosed Don Gabriel is his country's ablest salesman. His ready politician's smile and his man-to-man manner are so convincing that political opponents have been known to avoid his company lest they be hypnotized into agreement...
...wavy pompadour was flecked with grey and his bony face was pale and lined. But as he sat in the witness chair, he cocked his impressive beak at the prosecution's attorneys with a parakeet's assurance. His Australian snarl was as sardonic as ever, as he tried to refute the Government's charges-that he had been a Communist and had lied in denying it when he became a citizen...
...Very Finest Brains." The prosecutor, lanky, beak-nosed Christmas Humphreys, at first sounded almost like a defense counsel. He told how Fuchs had fled Nazi Germany, had been interned by Britain in the early part of the war. In 1942 Fuchs had been permitted to take the oath of British citizenship, Humphreys said, because "the very finest brains available were needed to assist in research, and such brains as Dr. Fuchs possessed were very rare indeed. He was known and proved to be one of the finest theoretical physicists living ... It is only fair to say that he always impressed...