Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hawk-nosed, black-bearded Prince Feisal, second of old Ibn Saud's 40 sons, is at least as stalwart a Saudi dynast as his brother the King, and might well be the chieftain with the stature and ability to save the Saudi regime. He is widely considered abler, more vigorous and more cultivated than his elder brother. In the desert campaigns of the '20s and '30s he fought for his warrior-father with greater flair and daring. While his taciturn brother stayed home holding interminable levees among dusty tribal sheiks, Feisal, majestically robed and daggered, represented...
...chauffeur, Johnny once took operatic coaching but prepared in college for a teaching career (English). In his spare time, he picked up pin money singing in local clubs and with a semiprofessional opera group. Helen Noga, co-owner of San Francisco's famed Black Hawk nightclub, heard him, introduced him to Columbia Records' George Avakian. His first successful single, Wonderful, Wonderful, sat around for several months before it began lighting boards in San Francisco and Boston. It climbed the charts, catapulted Johnny into a career that should bring him $500,000 this year...
...Governor William P. Hobby and his wife, Oveta Gulp, wartime WAC commander and the nation's first (1953-55) Health, Education and Welfare Secretary. In ten years Laro has quadrupled his editorial staff (to 110) and kept Houston humming with such solidly documented exposés as hawk-faced City Editor Ralph O Leary's biting inside report on Texas' McCarthy-phile Minute Women (TIME, Nov. 2, 1953). Editor Laro's creed: "Go beneath the surface of the news and report things that other people either aren't equipped to report...
...they had a knobby-kneed, balding veteran named George Yardley, and he was more than enough. While the Pistons eked out the game, 118-113, Yardley pushed in 52 points to break this season's National Basketball Association record that he used to share with St. Louis Hawk Bob Pettit...
When Chicago closed the gap 3-2 before the middle session ended, Stasiuk made sure on a slick pass from Bucyk who had carried the puck into the Hawk zone and flipped a shot high into the net over Hall's shoulder...