Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proclamation declaring that Addi ou Bihi had been fired from the governership and that "anyone who continues to obey him will be considered a traitor to Islam." That did it. Two battalions of the royal Moroccan army, plowing through 150 miles of snow-covered mountain roads, found the old hawk-nosed Berber chieftain camped in the cedar forest with only 200 warriors still standing beside him. "Présentez armes!" cried Addi. The ..warriors snapped to attention, then let their rifles fall to the ground, a symbol of surrender. The ceremony was followed by an ample lunch, attended by Addi...
Commented Spaak dryly: "The European nations are something like scattered chicks when they see a hawk hovering above them-whether in the form of Stalin or Nasser-they tend to come together...
Frost also read two short poems on California, a new work inspired by a walk at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and another about Gus, a stray dog who came to visit...
...rose hawk-nosed, Aussie-born Harry Bridges himself to rant in down-under accents against Mississippi's Senator James O. Eastland. Noting that Eastland and his Internal Security Subcommittee were westward bound and due in Honolulu soon to investigate Communist infiltration, Bridges threatened that I.L.W.U. members might leave their pineapple and sugar plantations, knock off work at the piers and meet the Subcommittee with an angry aloha...
...difficulties occurred to them. It would not do to kidnap His Majesty the Sultan. And the whole thing should be cleared with somebody in Paris. The somebody in Paris turned out to be hawk-nosed Socialist Max Lejeune, Secretary of State for the armed forces and close friend of Algeria's tough Minister Resident Lacoste, opponent of a liberal line in Algeria. Lejeune cautiously hinted of the operation to Premier Mollet, who had promised the Sultan and Bourguiba that the rebels would enjoy immunity. Mollet snapped: "Definitely...