Word: hawked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Uncle Harry tells of a man (Joseph Schildkraut) who commits a perfect crime. The criminal is a mild, Milquetoastish bachelor who lives with two maiden sisters (Eva Le Gallienne, Adelaide Klein) who spoil him dreadfully but also spoil his life. They wrangle with each other, watch him like a hawk, keep him from marrying. Not being as harmless as he looks, Harry coolly schemes to poison one of them and have the other charged with the crime...
Rough comparisons were available, War-hawk's striking power will be much greater than the Kittihawk's six 50-caliber (half-inch) guns. ME 100-F1, one of the most recent Nazi Messerschmitts, shoots 265 Ib. of metal and explosive a minute from two 311-caliber guns and a 15-mm. cannon; the new British Hurricane 2-B sprays 330 Ib. of twelve .30 or .303 caliber; the new Hurricane 2-C, 600 Ib. from four 20-mm. cannon...
...President. He even looks the part. Iron-grey, over six feet tall, lean, muscular, cold, with a hawk nose, and down-slanting heavy brows that are a cartoonist's godsend, he looks, as he is, a personification of stubborn and violent will. Characteristic was his reply, as President-elect, to banqueting businessmen who proposed certain Governmental measures: "Don't advise me, I prefer to be wrong alone...
Southward, in the State of Mysore, is another great industrial concentration, where Indian workmen produce iron & steel, even a few airplanes (trainers and Curtiss Hawk fighters). Now the British wish that more of India's industries were on the west coast, fewer on and near the Bay of Bengal's vulnerable shoreline. India's industrial prizes, in the Calcutta area, lie at the end of the shortest sea and air route from Burma...
...whom Lord Northcliffe once called "the greatest living journalist" finished his last, long-winded, lucid, discerning editorial. After 34 years, Britain's most quoted and respected editor, old (74), hawk-faced J(ames) L(ouis) Garvin was quitting the London Observer...