Word: hawke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slate-grey and black-barred peregrine falcon (duck hawk) is one of the speediest and most powerful of all flying organisms. It flies on the level at 60 m.p.h., dives at 180, knocks out its quarry (birds up to the size of duck) with its steely talons, kills only what it will eat. Its attacks are always made from open sky, and what it does not kill with the first attack, it seldom bothers to pursue. The late Gerald H. Thayer once admiringly described the peregrine falcon as a "powerful, wild, majestic, independent bird, living on the choicest of clean...
...before they played at the Freshman Smoker, the entire group trooped down to join the musicians' union, because New Orleans clarinetist Edmond Hall was coming out from the Savoy to play with them "and the union was watching us like a hawk." Shortly afterwards they played for the Radcliffe freshmen at Agassiz Hall, where they were paid off in rye smuggled in by an admiring Cliffe girl...
...Including the Wright brothers' Kitty Hawk; Wiley Post's Winnie Mae; Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis...
...There's No Tomorrow, stopped the show. His warm, strong baritone, faintly reminiscent of Tony Martin's, still had the natural flow and phrasing which he had developed by singing in a Philadelphia synagogue, and the unsophisticated delivery which "I got," he says, "from helping dad hawk fruits and vegetables from a truck when I was a kid." When the reviews appeared next morning, Fisher was described as "merely wonderful," "a sensational singing voice and style," "terrific...
...busy Los Angeles streets, newsboys stand precariously among onrushing autos to hawk afternoon papers to motorists at the traffic lights. Result: in ten years, 17 newsboys have been killed, 283 injured. To stop the slaughter, Los Angeles' city council, pushed by the P.T.A., safety organizations and fearful drivers, finally proposed an ordinance last month to make the newsboys stay on the sidewalk...