Word: hawked
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...compromise with the Soviets. And when Rostow was fired earlier this month, he suggested a bit misleadingly that it was Nitze's abortive breakthrough last July that had clinched his downfall, and not his own sometimes imperious style. Yet Nitze remains, by every account, the most experienced, respected hawk in the defense Establishment...
...venerable battlewagon is still awesome. Her 16-in. guns can hurl shells that weigh 2,700 Ibs. each (the weight of a Chevrolet) as far as 23 miles. She has been fitted with Toma hawk and Harpoon missiles, some with nuclear warheads; the Toma hawk can hit targets 1 ,500 miles away...
...anything," said Donna. "I'd scare them away but it didn't work." Not long thereafter, a meter reader noticed that the living-room window was smashed and called the police. Guns drawn, officers entered the house with John and found not a burglar but a hawk with a 2-ft. wing span perched in the living room. John Pflueger theorized that the hawk had been going after a woodpecker snack when it hurtled through the window. Things have been more peaceful of late, but the hawk and dozens of woodpeckers can still be seen, waiting, through...
...Walters for violating four sections of the Federal Aviation Act. Among them: flying an aircraft for which there is no airworthiness certificate. Complained Walters, who plans to fight the FAA's action: "If the FAA was around when the Wright Brothers were testing their first plane at Kitty Hawk, they would have never got up." Maybe, but air-safety officials might point out that passenger airlines were not flying in 1903. Said one: "A major catastrophe could have resulted." Walters faces fines totaling...
...strategy, so far, has failed resoundingly. When Legislative Aide Kenneth Duberstein reported at a budget meeting that even so fervent a congressional hawk as Trent Lott of Mississippi, the Republican House whip, is now calling for a slowdown in military spending, the President silently shook his head no. Reagan then interrupted the uncomfortable session to place a call to the astronauts aboard the Columbia space shuttle. As if glad for an escape, he told the astronauts, "Well, now, wait till I get my hat and I'll go with...