Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...figure. Saigon officials had been claiming that U. S. planes and helicopter gunships flying in support of ARVN troops had killed some 14,000 rebel troops in Laos. President Nixon had been emphasizing the importance of these North Vietnamese "losses" in recent statements, and Joseph Alsop, the ever-obliging hawk columnist, went so far as to treat his readers of two days ago to a lurid description of how some 500 North Vietnamese troops were incinerated in a single air strike recently...
SENATOR Henry ("Scoop") Jackson of Washington State is a perplexing study in political paradox. He gaily dismisses his frequent hawk label: "I'm not a hawk or a dove. I just don't want my country to be a pigeon." Still, Jackson remains one of the most rigid supporters of President Nixon's Viet Nam policies. He still firmly believes in the domino theory of Southeast Asian politics and, as far as the rest of the world goes, he is convinced of the ultimate malevolence of the Soviet Union's global intentions. President Nixon thinks...
...East Africa's Asians. Today 1,850,000 nonwhites live in Britain; they constitute only 2.1% of the total population, but in the slums of London and the cities of the Midlands, whole streets have become immigrant ghettos. Shops are stocked with curries and spices; street vendors hawk mangoes and yams and custard apples. In Leeds, cinemas show Punjabi films on Sundays. In Coventry, Indians can occasionally be seen on their porches playing pipes to pet cobras in wicker baskets...
...from the sky. A voice crackled over the radio: "Things are looking good." Then, in clear view of the recovery task force and millions of television watchers round the world, three big white-and-orange-striped parachutes unfurled, braking the descent of Apollo 14's command module, Kitty Hawk. Moments later, only 900 yards off the predicted target and just four seconds behind schedule, the heat-seared ship splashed into the water in a spectacular finale to man's third and most successful expedition to the surface of the moon...
...savage in Arthur Penn's Little Big Man, the most astonishingly successful new actor in Hollywood. Much of the film's validity rests on his authentic and serene presence as Old Lodge Skins. When he tells his adopted grandson (Dustin Hoffman), "My heart soars like a hawk to see you," one can truly visualize a pair of swift wings beating across the sky. His remarkable performance has already won him the New York Film Critics' award for Best Supporting Actor of 1970 and made him an early favorite in the upcoming Oscar campaign...