Word: hawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mayhem & Haw. In Murfreesboro, Tenn., Herman Robertson sued Clyde Hunter for $1,500 damages, declared that Hunter had bitten off his lip, and that consequently his plow mule no longer understood his directions...
...emblem suggested by Bernard Frank for Henry Wallace [TIME, Jan. 19] seems to be a natural, inasmuch as HAW in a farmer's language means a left turn. . . . CARROLL D. COFFIELD Cleveland, Ohio
...HAW...
...initials of Henry A. Wallace . . . spell HAW, I suggest as his party's emblem the Haw tree (Viburnum prunifolium), specifically the Black Haw, sometimes called the Stag Bush. Should any artist wish to paint this phenomenon of nature, I give him Charles Sprague Sargent's description (Manual of the Trees of North America; Houghton Mifflin...
...similarity between the Haw tree and Henry A. Wallace is purely political...