Word: hawked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wasn't until last summer, when the colonel took over the Bob Hawk quiz show for six weeks, that radio listeners noticed him again. The show zoomed up twelve places one week to the nation's top Hooperating. Bandleader Vaughn Monroe heard him, signed him to a seven-year contract...
...Robert Montgomery. Surprisingly, it took in more money the second time around than it did in the original release. M-G-M followed up by reissuing Boomtown (1940), The Great Waltz (1938) and The Philadelphia Story (1940). Warner Bros, dusted off King's Row (1941), The Sea Hawk (1940) and The Sea Wolf (1941), and 20th Century-Fox tried another round of Alexander's Ragtime Band...
...year-old Mrs. John Yetter surprised a fox in her chicken coop, doughtily grabbed it by the tail, gave it a whirl, bashed its head against the ground. In Willington, Conn., Mary Cski, 75, heard a commotion among her hens, hustled down, caught a marauding 8-lb. chicken hawk with her bare hands...
...idolatry in the U.S. may be a blind, uncritical worship of democracy. So says hawk-nosed Reinhold Niebuhr, a topflight theologian who also takes a vigorous interest in politics. In the current issue of his fortnightly Christianity and Crisis, Editor Niebuhr writes...
According to their bureau chief, they began their assignment with "all the enthusiasm of schoolboys excused from classes for a week." Hillman, a citified reporter who could hardly be expected to tell the difference between a chicken hawk and a humming bird, spent one afternoon "birding" with the Perkinses in Lincoln Park's vast private sanctuary. Says he: "For the first half hour we saw nothing but a couple of sparrows, a flock of pigeons and a mallard duck, which I rashly identified as a peacock. After several hours I was chilled to the bone, bitten everywhere by bugs...