Word: hawking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major General Claire Chennault, hawk-eyed chief of the Fourteenth Air Force in China, publicly greeted Hollywoodians Jinx Falkenburg and Pat O'Brien, members of a U.S.O. troupe whose performance moved 20th Bomber Command enlisted men-hitherto highly critical of China-Burma-India theater performers- to present them with a commendatory scroll...
Scheduled to go home on August 1, hawk-faced Colonel Gabreski went on working as an extra-duty volunteer on his old job-bomber-escort, strafing missions, other fighter pilot's miscellany...
Brusque Admiral Hennecke looked superciliously down his hawk's nose. His morale had just been boosted by award of the Knight's Cross to the Iron Cross. "Hennecke performed a feat unique in the history of coastal defense," read his radioed citation. "He carried out an exemplary destruction of the port of Cherbourg...
...laid down from his Scarborough villa to the sea. When he inherited his estate, he promptly gave all his chief servants checkbooks "so that they could draw on his funds . . . without worrying him." An excessive fondness for parrots caused the Earl's death (in 1900, from psittacosis). His hawk-faced wife, who once caused Napoleon III to burn with a hard gemlike flame, ran Londes-borough Lodge with an iron hand. Her brother, Lord Raincliffe, who had a passion for circus clowns and fire engines, often came to stay, locked himself in his room for hours every day, conducting...
...Star sets the tone for all military papers. Red Navy and Stalin Hawk-for the air force-are closely modeled on it. Red Star's battle reports are the Soviet Union's most reliable and most colorful. Since all Russians get military training, all correspondents have military rank. Most of Red Star's are majors, who wear no insignia to distinguish them as newsmen. Red Star's star correspondent is greying Ilya Ehrenburg, 53, whose dispatches are frequently cabled to the U.S. Pravda and Izvestia also run his highly colored, hate-filled dispatches...