Word: hawking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Small merchants lost trade; florists found that people who could not read about deaths or weddings did not send flowers. A cinema hired a sound-truck to hawk its shows. Radio stations expanded their newscasts, but it was slim fare. Springfield still had not learned, by paper or radio, that one of the last links with journalistic greatness was gone. Famed Republican Editor Waldo Lincoln Cook, who supported many a cause that the boss did not like, had quit...
...Chicago Black Hawk swung the first punch and Detroit's Red Wings shook off their heavy gloves-the better to bash an enemy nose. Reinforcements swarmed on to the ice from both benches; Referee Frank ("King") Clancy, who wasn't mad at anybody until he got slugged by a zealous spectator, began swinging too. For twelve minutes, with no cops in sight, there was bedlam last week in Chicago's jampacked Stadium...
Those who received scholarships are: Theodore P. Allegretti '47, John C. Babcock '47, Joseph S. Berliner '48, Paul E. Des Marais '49, Morgan J. Doughton '47, Walter S. Frank '49, John L. Hawk '49, Frederick W. Kinsman '49, William G. Lawrence '50, Mark W. Leiserson '48, Bernard Loitman '40, Donald P. MacDonald '50, William W. Mee '47, James M. Menger, Jr. '48, Vincent P. Moravec '40, William F. O'Connor '49, Berol L. Robinson '48, Abe Schestopol '49, and John M. Teem...
...four-engined York monoplane, London-bound, the "No Smoking" sign stayed on for an hour out of Karachi. When it went out, Mohamed Ali Jinnah, in a front-row seat, chain-smoked State Express 555 cigarets, buried his hawk's head in a book pointedly titled A Nation Betrayed. Behind him sat Pandit Jawar-halal Nehru, chain-smoking Chesterfields, wearing Western-style clothes for the first time in eight years. Between Karachi and Malta, Nehru breezed through Rosamond Lehmann's The Ballad and the Source and Sinclair Lewis' Cass Timberlane, chatted with his good friend, Sikh leader
...will do, his mood, what the men around him say. Bureau Chief Robert Elson may take over from there, filling in the outline with information he picked up at a background conference in the State Department. Each reporter "sings" in turn: Frank McNaughton, who watches Congress like a hawk, to predict the fate of an important bill; Anatole Visson to relate some unusual doings among the foreign embassies; Frances Henderson to recount the latest news in atomic science...