Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvey was in no hurry to hawk his song; in 20 years he had written "boxes full of songs." He knew the music business inside & out. In his teens he had played mood music on an organ in an Atlantic City movie house: "I followed the hero and the villain and really got a workout...
Local optometrists were reported forming a "light market" to hawk the shady publications, and one merchant stated that "after all, the magazines were probably too sexy for Harvard pupils." Paul W. Mandel '51, noted naval analyst, was quoted as saying...
That did it. Two hours later, egged on by a wildly cheering crowd, Haiti's Chamber of Deputies met in extraordinary session at Port-au-Prince to "force the chicken hawk of the East to pull in his claws." The Deputies passed laws which 1) authorized $3,000,000 for national defense, 2) revived military service, 3) created a committee to investigate subversive activity by anyone over 16. The crowd yelled itself hoarse when Deputy Philippe Charlier cried: "We'll fight them with machetes and penknives if necessary. No Haitian is afraid of a Dominican even if they...
Born. To Major General Claire Lee Chennault (ret), 58, hawk-faced ex-skipper of the Flying Tigers and the Fourteenth Air Force who now runs a Chinese commercial airline, and Anna Chan Chennault, 25, former Shanghai newspaperwoman: their first child (he had eight others by a previous marriage), a daughter; in Canton. Name: Claire Anna. Weight...
...Lavoisier (1775), was really discovered by an 18th Century Russian poet-scientist-philosopher named Mikhail Lomonosov. This week the Russians claimed again that a Russian flew the first power-driven heavier-than-air machine 21 years before the Wright brothers got around to their 1903 flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C. In recent years, official Communist publications have claimed that the incandescent lamp, the radio, the steam engine, penicillin, and many basic discoveries in theoretical sciences were Russian products. A few of these claims have shreds of truth to them; most are the wildest fantasy...