Word: hawked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crawford H. Greenewalt, the greying, hawk-nosed director and chemist of du Pont (son-in-law of Irenee du Pont) who got the Hanford project in production...
Jinny was "a half-tamed hawk of a girl, twenty-three or four, not tall, smiling, lively of eye. . . . 'Be an exciting kid to know,' thought Timberlane...
...stone steps, the tall, booted, hawk-nosed Earl watched a company of soldiers, sailors and airmen click to "present arms," heard a military band play the final strain of God Save the King. From the distance came the deep booms of a 19-gun salute. The Earl, plainly enjoying this time-honored parliamentary pageantry, smiled, then turned and warmly shook the hand of Canada's chunky, frock-coated Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. A braid-heavy honor guard escorted the Earl and the Princess inside...
President Truman admits to liking The Missouri Waltz, sometimes picks it out on the piano at parties. But he is just as likely to come up with something else of the same dreamy kind, like the almost forgotten Black Hawk Waltz which he played in the rotunda of Washington's State Capitol (TIME, July...
...achieved final, legal respectability. Nevada's toiling judges, their position secured, ground out divorces for Doris Duke, Gypsy Rose Lee, Gloria Vanderbilt and thousands of other U.S. women of all stations. But the Supreme Court had left one loophole-it had not defined the term "legal domicile." A hawk-eyed North Carolina attorney general spotted...