Word: hawked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marble-topped table, in an unswept, musty cafe, I sat discussing the meeting with the three anti-Communist members of Parliament who were scheduled to speak that evening. One of them, tall, hawk-nosed Vince Nagy, former Minister of Interior in the Károlyi Government after World War I (no kin to exiled Premier Ferenc Nagy), said: "A few days ago when [Dezsö] Sulyok, head of our party, said in Parliament there was no freedom of speech in Hungary today, the Communists called him a liar...
...commemorate the 139th birthday of the first and only president of the Confederate States of America. With routine reverence, the ladies placed a wreath before the eight-foot bronze statue of Jefferson Davis (which stared gloomily north). Then they sat back to listen to a eulogy by sallow, hawk-nosed Dr. Charles C. Tansill, Texas-born history professor at Washington's Georgetown University...
...Brewing Business. The firm was started by James Smith, a Scottish carpenter, who supposedly got a recipe for cough drops from a peddler. He began brewing 5-lb. batches in his kitchen, sent sons William and Andrew to hawk the drops. After James died, the bewhiskered sons put the drops in boxes, stamped their faces on the cartons, and moved into a factory on "Cough Drop Street...
...excluding Atlanta University (for Negroes). Farmers get a daily hour (5:30-6:30 a.m.) of down-to-earth farm news, plus such extras as gifts of bred ewes to 4-H Clubbers. And with its parent paper (TIME, March 17), WSB watches "Hummon" Talmadge like a chicken hawk...
...frustrating chicanery. Bills arrive promptly; and rigid, relentless machinery is put into operation for their payment. Erring students, tottering on the verge of probation, find all their past cuts carefully noted at the Dean's Office. And, when crafty Jawn Harvard is proctoring, his eyes are sharper than a hawk's from centuries of administering examinations to some of the cleverest brains America has produced...