Word: hawking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Drunk," mighty, hawk-eyed, 6 ft. 2 in., drifted down to Texas in time for the trouble with Mexico. Santa Anna drenched The Alamo in its defenders' blood, put the Government and people of the new Republic into panic. Commander-in-Chief Sam Houston yelled, "Remember The Alamo" and raised an army out of the ground. In 15 minutes at San Jacinto he wiped out Santa Anna's far larger force, losing only six of his own men. Worshiping Texans gave the hero two terms as president, sent him to the U. S. Senate when Texas joined...
...finest attack of nervous indigestion in all Europe descended last week upon the lean Roman abdomen of Baron Pompeo Aloisi. This hawk-eyed, hollow-cheeked diplomat who since 1932 has served Italy as chief delegate to the League of Nations, found himself rudely summoned from his Geneva apartment, plumped down in a small private dining room before a table full of Swiss food, and talked to, straight from the shoulder, by two nervous, irritable statesmen whose friendship he valued, whose ability he recognized, whose view point he could understand. It was a dreadful meal. The soup got cold, the champagne...
Amazingly last week the British Delegation were sniped at in a manner definitely "not cricket" by hawk-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain. He suddenly took it on himself to say that the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister had no authority from Britain's Cabinet to make fresh commitments at Stresa last week or at Geneva this week when the League Council meets. Mr. Chamberlain hinted that Mr. MacDonald and Sir John could not be trusted not to exceed their authority and that he was therefore obliged to expose their real position. Next day they hotly retorted...
Such a power in British politics is stern, hawk-featured Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, that the House of Commons received him and his 1935-36 budget with cheers this week after his un-English hamstringing of the Prime Minister and Sir John Simon while they were away at Stresa...
...hawk's shadow rippled across the tops of the trees and blotted the bars of the sun on the brook. It flickered for a second on the little girl's bare feet and was gone. And again it swerved over and disappeared. Back in the meadow, something swooped down and the thin, quivering squeal of a field mouse hung in the hot, stagnant air and was stifled...