Word: hawked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vice President Rockefeller has been a hawk on issues like Viet Nam and nuclear testing. Ronald Reagan's record is even more closely associated with imperialistic ventures. All eight men are part of the power structure that the CIA was trying to protect. The committee contains no representatives of the peace movement, no women and no members of ethnic minorities...
...Before 1967,' he recalls, 'I made a good living selling Egyptian souvenirs. I had a shop here in Suez, and I had a boat for going out into the harbor to hawk souvenirs to passengers and crews. But when I came back this summer, I found my apartment, my shop and my boat all completely destroyed. Now all I can do is spread a few souvenirs on the street in front of the Bel-Air Hotel and sell a few things to United Nations soldiers. If they can only make peace and open the canal again...
...shadowy cave world of the witch-queen Azura, one of the most sinuous vamps of all time. Wielding sword and ray gun (not to mention skull and bones), Flash survives everything that Mongo's Ming the Merciless can throw at him: sacred droks, octosaks, shark men, iron men, hawk men, even Ming's insatiable daughter, Princess Aura. Forty years on, Dale still sounds like an escapee from a Campbell's Soup ad. Flash still does not get around to marrying her. Author-Illustrator Alex Raymond still seems to be some sort of genius...
...tempered grays, are slices from a Midwestern wasteland. He has fixed an eerie view of a technological desert: an empty drive-in-movie parking lot with a massive, mottled white screen leaning over it sprouts speakers on poles at gawky angles in the dust, and a jet plane hovers, hawk-like, in one corner...
FOREIGN POLICY. The new President was a steadfast cold warrior in the 1950s and a particularly hard-beaked hawk during the Viet Nam War. Yet when Richard Nixon began winding down U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia and moving toward détente with the Soviet Union, Ford staunchly defended those policies on the floor of the House. He also approved Nixon's overtures to Peking, but concedes that he would not have made them had he been President then. "Not with my record of 23 years' opposition [to Communism]," he told a reporter. "But I approve...