Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TIME--Ernest Hemingway--Boni & Liveright ($2). Here is a writer, a young new U.S. writer, who instinctively differentiates between the hawk of living and the handsaw of existing. He appears to have lived considerably himself, in unusual ways and places. He knows how trout-fishing in Michigan feels; how Yankee jockeys, straight and crooked, ride on European tracks; how half-breed squaws bear their children back of the logging camps; how bulls and toreros slaughter one another in Spain. How he knows things you cannot say; he writes so directly, without fuss and feathers, with so little explanation of himself...
...team's all-time leader in steals--with 104 more than any other Harvard player--leaped high in the air to snare a Mountain Hawk pass at the top of the key on Harvard's end of the floor. She began the break and dished a pass to the right block where fellow senior Alison Seanor had one defender between her and an easy deuce...
Behavior modification schools advertise in the back of mainstream magazines like Sunset, and their slogans are as no-nonsense as a five-mile run at sunrise. "Attitudes adjusted here," says an ad for the Ascent Program. Sea Hawk Academy promises "the wake-up call your teenager needs." Many offer to arrange the kind of "escort service" David van Blarigan found at his bedside. The schools and camps are often isolated, either in rural America (Thompson Falls, Mont.) or in faraway locales (Western Samoa). They number as many as 2,000, estimates Alexia Parks, author of a new online report...
Every day in Charleston, S.C., the South rises again. Airport advertisements hawk local plantations preserved in antebellum splendor. The Old City Market sports Sambo lawn jockeys and fat black mammy dolls holding pigtailed blond babies. And a few blocks away, the Rebel flag blazes in a store window...
...made only one change in interest rates: a quarter-point increase last March. But standing pat in this case is a positive accomplishment. Greenspan has resisted pressure from nervous Nellies inside and outside the Fed to slam a monetary brake on the economy. The nation's foremost inflation hawk now seems to accept the idea that unlike in the past, deep changes in the economy have made sustained growth possible without pushing prices...