Word: hawke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since it gave the old heave-ho to the United Electrical Workers at its convention last November, the C.I.O. has been steadily scraping the rest of the Communist-dominated unions off its shoes. Last week, with six already expelled, it called San Francisco's lean, hawk-nosed Longshore Boss Harry Bridges to Washington to stand trial on a charge of following the Moscow line and sabotaging C.I.O. policy...
...minor ironies of history, Grant's resignation was accepted by Secretary of War Jefferson Davis. The path of West Pointer Davis had already crossed that of another coming man: in the Black Hawk War (1832), where he served as a lieutenant of regulars, Davis had administered the oath of allegiance to Captain-of-Volunteers Abraham Lincoln...
...while he spent long weeks in the woods, hunting bear. As a husband he was no more successful than as a farmer. One day when his wife said, "Ben, you like to shoot so well, why don't you get your gun and shoot that chicken hawk?" he left the house and did not come back for more than a year. "That hawk kept flying," he explained...
According to a letter printed for the first time in the current Atlantic Monthly, Bicycle Shop Proprietor Wilbur Wright wrote to his father (on Sept. 3, 1900) that he was going to a place called Kitty Hawk, N.C., to try a little experiment: "It is my belief that flight is possible and . . . I think there is a slight possibility of achieving fame and fortune from...
...were plenty of other cars at prices more in line with the U.S. family budget. The Rootes group, one of the "big six" British manufacturers and a big exporter to the U.S. and Canada, sent a slick five-passenger Hillman Minx convertible ($1,745), and a four-cylinder Humber Hawk sedan ($1,997) that came close to looking like...