Word: falcon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charlie Ufford, defending champion, drew a first-round bye and easily disposed of Wesleyan's Bill Falcon in the second. His scores...
...poetry in the issue is generally unexciting, except for a quite eloquent lyric called Falcon, by Francis Spalding. The other poems, two each by David Chandler and Benjamin LaFarge, are quite ornate, and, in the case of the latter, considerably involved in their sentence structure...
Writes White, who later succeeded in training other hawks and the more tractable falcon: "Nothing is more certain than that Gos entangled his jesses in one of the myriad trees of The Ridings, and there, hanging upside down by the mildewed leathers, his bundle of green bones and ruined feathers may still be swinging in the winter wind...
...Knights of Rhodes, an island they captured in 1309, they spent two centuries fighting Turkish pirates and raiding Turkish towns. Driven out of Rhodes at last by Suleiman II, they were granted the sovereignty of Malta by the Emperor Charles V, in exchange for a token payment of a falcon a year. Promptly they resumed their sea-raiding as the Knights of Malta. And lords of Malta they remained until 1798, when their own grand master treacherously handed the island to Napoleon. The English, who soon captured it from the French, never allowed the knights to come back...
...Mexicans like him because he speaks Spanish and because his wife is pretty. The O'Dwyers are enormously popular, entertain widely, and get around. He has a nice instinct for handling prideful Mexicans and a politician's feel for public relations. During an inspection trip to the Falcon Dam on the Rio Grande, a joint project of both nations, O'Dwyer said only: "One Falcon Dam is worth 1,000 speeches"-and was quoted all over Mexico. As a broad-minded politician, he gets on well with Mexico's broad-minded politicians. When O'Dwyer...