Word: falcon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Department have been unfair to a superb creature when you refer to the Memorial Hall pigeon-killer as a "huge chicken hawk." Leaving aside the fact there is no recognized species of "chicken hawk," this particular bird is a Duck Hawk (Falco peregrinus anatum), the American version of the falcon, traditionally used for hunting...
Imagined Purgatory. Like his famed mother, Rebecca West (Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, The Meaning of Treason), 35-year-old Anthony has thought earnestly and long about the tincture of guilt that has seeped into the stream of consciousness of modern man and created a field day for the psychoanalysts. Like his father, the late great H. G. Wells,* he has a considerable talent for creating the geography of a make-believe world to suit his fictional purpose...