Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secretary, has been the Institution's choice as the A-1 ace. In the Institution Langley's plane was labeled the first capable of making a sustained flight carrying a man. Finally Orville Wright got so mad about it that in 1928 he sent the original Kitty Hawk machine to a London museum. Kindly Dr. Abbot, naturally perturbed at the loss of a possible exhibit, began to turn the matter over in his mind. After 14 years of gentle revolving, he made his decision last week: the Wright brothers were indeed the first to make a sustained flight...
...topknot and is about four times larger. As a boy Kalaf used to hunt the hajjel and he still has great affection for the bird. Says he: "By golly, this hajjel she is tough one. In Syria she roost on high bluffs and nothing can get him. She make hawk or eagle run like hell...
When strapping, hawk-nosed Prince Karl of Denmark was crowned King Haakon VII of Norway, 36 years ago, the crown, too large even for his Viking dome, slipped down over his ears. Superstitious observers whispered that this was an evil omen for his reign. But last week in London the exiled King, on his 70th birthday, knew that in his people's travail Norway's crown fitted him more snugly than ever. Standing with Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha, the shy, baldish King, uniformed as an admiral, reviewed an expatriate kingdom: hundreds of civilians-men, women...
...along the Don at Voronezh were safe for the moment. Bock might be on the threshold of an even greater victory. He could look with satisfaction on what his Panzers, shock troops, snub-nosed caterpillar guns and rank-on-rank of efficient infantrymen had achieved. He could look with hawk-eyed anticipation at the mighty Volga, throbbing artery that pumps the heart of Russia, almost within his grasp. With brains and reasonable luck he might sever that artery by autumn, cut the Red army and Russia from its Caucasian oilfields and enormously complicate Russian supply problems from outside...
...Espy, J. E. Faurot, D. E. Forst, Myrtile Frank, Jr., Edmond Garvey, R. D. Glendinning, W. W. Goodrich, R. R. Gordon, C. E. Goudge, R. A. Gray, C. T. Greenleaf, Jr., N. T. Harty, J. R. Hawk, F. H. Haye, P. P. Hebert, W. A. Hebert, E. W. Hening, Jr., R. S. Herman...