Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pablo, Hemingway's terrible symbol of a man devastated by the fear of death, Akim Tamiroff has some magnificent, all but tragic moments. As Pilar, Hemingway's salty symbol of Spain's people, Greek Actress Katina Paxinou would walk away with any less leaden show. Her hawk-fine face, wallowing walk, Goyaesque style and Noah Beery laugh assure her a rich future, if only she can find roles spacious enough. As the Soviet journalist, Karkov, Konstantin Shayne makes his characterization of a political commissar the most electrifying bit in years...
Somewhere in England, hawk-faced Colonel General Jurgen von Arnim, captive commander of Axis North African armies, complained of a soldier's ailment (flat feet). He also showed signs of a beaten general's occupational ailments-mental depression and an anxiety neurosis. For the latter trouble, the British called in a psychiatrist...
...airport WAVE Haughton bit all the lipstick off her lips last week. Cause: nervousness at bringing in her first plane with an admiral at the controls. But four hours later she sent him out as smoothly, calmly as if she had been running an airport-control tower since Kitty Hawk. This time there was no damage to cosmetics. She had heard the Admiral, George D. Murray, who commanded the Hornet, pronounce her work excellent...
Until war's end, the Ford burden must inevitably fall upon the two most trusted men in the empire - tall, hawk-nosed Charles E. Sorensen, vice president, and squat, nail-hard Harry Bennett. Sorensen, Danish-born, came to the company in 1904, has heard all the dreams of Henry and Edsel, and translated them into cars off the production line, planes winging from Willow Run. Bennett is no production man. Upon his pugilist's shoulders has rested the Atlantean task of protecting the empire from anything which Henry Ford wants it protected from. Hired to guard the Rouge...
Conquering Allied troops heard that the Bey of Tunis, hawk-nosed, pouchy-eyed Sidi Mohammed Al Mounsaf, had fled to Europe with his Axis friends. But a British lieutenant found the sovereign in a bomb proof cave near his palace. Later, when a British major general called to pay his respects, the Bey had out his bodyguard, his band, and his 25 wives. The Bey himself, in grey suit and red tarboosh, complained that bombs broke the glass in his blue, bougainvillaea-covered palace near Tunis. The general apologized...