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Word: hawked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 60 Rodin made his best drawings, which nowadays most critics prefer to his statues. He used to set models loose in his studio like doves, and watch them move -his pencil poised like a hawk in midair. Compared with the flying line of his drawings, some of Rodin's sculpture seems trapped in the clay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Free Play | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

Died. Major General Charles Henry Martin, 82, World War I Commander of the famed Black Hawk Division, who served two terms in Congress, became Oregon's Governor (1935-39), made himself a crusty spokesman for Oregon's anti-New Deal Democrats; in Portland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 7, 1946 | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

Hardboiled Harry Lundeberg' in the West, and in the East, medium-boiled John Hawk of the A.F.L. Seafarers International, yanked out 43,000 men. Longshoremen, tugboat men, radiomen, masters, mates and pilots announced that they would support the strike. Machinists in repair yards "hit the bricks." Even C.I.O.'s wily Johnny announced that he would respect A.F.L.'s picket lines, although he promised to work UNRRA ships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Song of Americans | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

Some of the experts whose job it is to hawk this film to U.S. moviegoers shook their heads mournfully after casing the well-set-up, well-exposed Granger torso. If Cleopatra, they decided, had only given Apollodorus the suggestion of a royal high sign for a command performance-no matter how far off-screen-it would have given the picture Sex. However that may be, and however well it makes out as spectacle, Caesar and Cleopatra is vintage Shaw: a wise and winning comedy, beautifully played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 19, 1946 | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...Hawk-nosed Novelist Vardis Fisher spends twelve hours a day working his farm in Idaho's Snake River country, four hours a night whipping out impassioned prose (Intimations of Eve, Children of God, etc.). But he is never too busy to argue. Five years ago Publisher Margaret Cobb Ailshie (TIME, Aug. 5) let contentious Vardis Fisher argue the case for isolationism in her interventionist Boise Idaho Statesman. Before she knew it, she had a new drawing card...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Man with a Temper | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

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