Word: hawked
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...response to criticism of Rockefeller's foreign policy, Bustin said "What we need is not one hawk, but two. Then Hanoi would know where we stand." As the audience hissed, Bustin asked, "Would John Quincy Adams hiss? Would Woodrow Wilson hiss? I think...
Introduced by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright, the Senate's foremost dove, and co-sponsored by Georgia's Richard Russell, its most powerful hawk, the measure had wide backing, reflecting the upper body's atavistic yearning for a role it thinks it once had. If passed, the resolution would have been no more binding on the President than one asking Americans to be kind to dogs. It would nonetheless have been a rebuke to him, and this consideration swayed some members of the Fulbright committee last week...
...East Cambridge, for instance, although the Irish had been staunchly hawk, the Italians had been outright anti-war or at least eager to listen to the CNCV's arguments. At the same time, the immigrant sections have been very vulnerable to counter-canvassing on the part of the Veterans. The Vet leaflet, which included a picture of an American flag and a short statement about "Freedom is not free," seemed to strike a responsive and ever guilty chord in many Italians. CNCV canvassers found that on Saturday, when the Vet literature began to circulate, the Italians became less prone...
Questions on the referendum will cover all possible opinions on the war from extreme hawk to extreme dove...
...hands beckon each dawn to the vulture and the hawk bound as I am to the rock that suffering has made mine. I see the trees breathing the black serenity of the dead and then the smiles-that don't develop-of the statues...