Word: falcon
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...black spearhead that raced past the ancient, memorable place names -Amiens, Arras, Abbeville-turned and hooked northward up the coast. Claws thrust out, curving, into the pocketed white space. On these daily map-pictures the U. S. watched the Allies thrashing as desperately as a fat bird in a falcon's talons...
Falkenhorst means "falcon's eyrie," and it was his use of winged killers that swept Germany's new hero to his fame. Blond, blue-eyed, smallish Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, 55, had proved himself a pitiless war lord. His soldierly qualities came to him from a line of professional fighters and from the same military academies-at Wahlstatt and Lichterfelde (oldtime Prussian West Point)-that turned out Germany's Hindenburg and Ludendorff. From the age of twelve, in school and at home in Breslau, he was shaped strictly for membership in his father's regiment, the crack...
Pointing a long finger, Senate President Robert C. Hendrickson shoved it directly under the falcon nose of Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague, charged that he alone was responsible for Jersey Central's bankruptcy. Reason: Boss Hague blocked the railroad tax compromise. Hague excuse: The bill was an attempted "tax steal." Roared he: "They are walking out with $35,000,000, and they are going to crucify Hague because he tells them they can't take that. . . . Mr. Railroads, just as long as the small taxpayers must submit, you'll submit. . . . Hague and Hagueism will haunt...
...would really like, I believe, to follow our lead-if we would assume the lead. The other night here in Bogotá we saw the newsreels of the Squalus rescue. The audience was simply overcome with admiration . . . and clapped and stamped as the survivors were helped aboard the Falcon. Finally the man in back of me, a Colombian, poked me violently in the back and said fiercely: "There, you ugly German [anybody with blond hair in Bogotá is a German], that's what we of the Americas...
...several mass meetings and the damaged and scarred city blossomed out in a new coating of war cartoons and slogans pasted on the walls of half-ruined buildings. That night Japanese bombers came over again in the moonlight, killed 50 persons in the city and damaged the British gunboat Falcon lying at anchor in the Yangtze. But the raid did not discourage Chinese leaders from broadcasting some high-hearted optimism...