Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hawk-beaked...
...Russian village. In the years after the War, when most U. S. foreign correspondents were sitting in the lobby of the Hotel Metropole in Moscow wishing they were in Vienna, Maurice Hindus went once a year to see how his old friends Boris the Cattle, Trofim the Hawk, Blind Sergey, their sons and their daughters were making out under Bolshevism. What he saw he put into the books Red Bread, Humanity Uprooted, Broken Earth, The Great Offensive, which gave the U. S. public its first intimation that more was going on in Soviet Russia than...
...days met him last week aboard the U. S. S. Houston at Balboa, C. Z.) two stories that in Ulysses' day would certainly have been referred to the oracles for interpretation: 1) At Galápagos, on shore leave, seamen from the Houston beheld two huge hawks swooping down upon a herd of wild goats. Each hawk seized a kid in its talons, started to flap away. Hurling stones at the hawks, the sailors made them drop the kids, which they took aboard the Houston as gifts for the U. S. Naval Academy...
...biggest game behind Europe's political scenes today is being played by bull-necked French Premier Edouard Daladier and hawk-beaked British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Their goal is to win over to the side of Democracy, by means of financial favors, those countries which, impressed by Adolf Hitler's adroit bluffing show of power, last year decided, or almost decided, to line up with Nazi Germany...
Congress had given him much of the rigging he had ordered (TIME, June 27). He hastened to make it fast by signing bills industriously all week long, working at his Hyde Park desk, collarless, in shirt sleeves and seersucker pants. With hawk-sharp eye, he vetoed a batch of little pension and claim bills, several efforts to expand veterans' compensation, a $3,260,000 building program for the Bureau of Fisheries, a pay-raiser for the Immigration & Naturalization Services, a bill enforcing publicity for PWA subcontractors and material men. These brought his veto record up above 300 since...