Word: hawked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some of the dovish Republicans tried to talk Riegle out of it, but he would not be denied his moment on center stage. Riegle offered his motion for the House to join the Senate in approving Cooper-Church. Wayne Hays of Ohio, a Democratic hawk, instantly asked House Speaker John McCormack who would assign the speaking time during the debate on Riegle's motion. Riegle, replied McCormack. The prospect of Riegle cavorting, however briefly, in even a minor leadership role was too much for Hays, a veteran of 22 years in the House. He moved to table Riegle...
...when I grew up, he would give me music." Sure enough, one day in 1964, when Rosemary was playing the piano in her home in Laitwood Road, Balham, one of London's poorer suburbs, she suddenly lost control of her hands. She looked up and there was Liszt, hawk nose, white hair, black gown and all, guiding her fingers over the keys...
Tight Security. The SA-3, similar to the U.S. Hawk missile but equipped with better radar, supplements the less sophisticated SA2, which never measured up to Soviet expectations. In North Viet Nam, where Moscow installed them to defend against U.S. planes, SA-2s worked successfully only three times in 6,800 firings. The Israelis lost just one Piper Cub to the SA-2s. By flying low, Israeli jets easily evaded the missiles. They also bombed about 20 of the sites out of existence...
...good old days got worse. Elly sang in striptease shows, and understudied Barbra Streisand in I Can Get It for You Wholesale. It was like sending a sparrow in for a hawk. Off-Broadway was a better avenue for her talents. In 1961, she found herself in a little musical entitled O, Oysters! Its author-producer was Eric Blau, a minor poet who was to become her second husband. A ghostwriter by trade (for Mickey Mantle, Jim Brown), Blau had a contagious obsession: Jacques Brel. "I was knocked out when I heard his work," he recalls. "I had never known...
...Correspondent Leo Janos last week. Reason: So much data streams into Houston from a spacecraft that flight controllers monitor only a certain number of critical functions at any single moment; the signals for the others are simply stored on tape for later examination. Furthermore, Kranz explained, even if some hawk-eyed observer had spotted the wild pressurization, his first incredulous reaction would probably have been to check for a malfunctioning sensor. Finally, no matter how quickly he responded, there was really nothing he could do. The pressure, Kranz said, simply built up too fast to be stopped...