Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generated electricity, but "bred" fissionable plutonium from U-235 at the same time, thus making it possible to utilize all of the uranium that can be extracted from the earth's surface for fuel. Said Westinghouse's President Gwilym Price: "The Idaho plant is the 'Kitty Hawk' of the atomic power industry...
Also, if newshen is supposed to be female for newshawk-well, you should call the fellow in charge of hawks at the Museum of Natural History. He says . . . the word falcon once was the English term for the female hawk. However, falconry now covers a family of hunting hawks, and a female hawk is simply called a female hawk. So futurely, if male reporters are to be known in TIME as newshawks, let's refer to the opposite species as female newshawks...
Fifty years ago today on the beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilber Wright pioneered in achieving flight with heavier-than-air craft. The associated industries that have grown up around the airplane during its half-century of existence new provide work for over half a million people. In the midst of the growth of these industries, a striking change has taken place in the attitude of the public toward aviation. Once considered a dream of impractical man, aviation today has an honored place among vocations and professions...
...highways and back roads across the U.S., Canada and Bermuda last week, motorists who took chances with the speed limits were encountering a new operational hazard. It swooped down on them with the swiftness of a hawk and was, oftentimes, as invisible as the Thought Police in Orwell's chiller. The unwitting speed demon saw no police car in his rear-view mirror. But his speed was clocked, just the same, and soon a patrolman was waiting to arrest...
...Hove, England, Mrs. Clement Attlee, famed for chauffeuring her ex-Prime Minister husband during his campaign travels, was fined ?1 ($2.80) for leaving her Humber Hawk parked without lights for nine hours and "obstructing" a local street...