Word: hawking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intent: for the first time steps are under consideration to impose curbs on the salacious magazines. The senators were hoping to build a case for legislation that would dam the gutter press at its principal source-the Hollywood bedroom-by making it illegal for private eyes to hawk their dirty discoveries to publishers (for prices as high as $1,500 a story...
...still the angering hum of change, Duncan listens only to the harmonic rhythm of the seasons, the shrill "kree kree" of a crying hawk, the explosion of hot sun on ripe tobacco leaf. He scours the countryside to breed an aging mare of a great blood line, and his father's death is somehow symbolically salvaged by the birth of a perfect colt. A second marriage of his own turns to ashes when he discovers that his wife is his neighbor's castoff doxy. Lonely and alone, he rides Chief, the young stallion, deeper into his estate where...
Worst of all, the whites' lunatic fringe began to take over. A letter addressed simply to "Nigger Preacher" was promptly delivered to Martin King. Up to 25 profanity-laced telephone calls a day came to the King home. Sometimes there was only the hawk of a throat and the splash of spittle against the ear piece. Montgomery was building toward the one thing that Martjn King wanted most to avoid: a violent blowup...
...curfew has not prevented Arabs from clustering to hear Cairo radio's nightly exhortations to "rise up and act for the glory of the Arab world," the Israelis face a crisis in cooperation. The Arabs feel the uncertainty of Gaza's status, and scent change. Urchins openly hawk cigarette lighters bearing Nasser's picture. Authorities last week arrested 20 Gaza teachers for assigning teen-age pupils to write essays on the need for killing Israelis. Merchants were refusing to accept Israeli money, and the only shop that the Israelis had opened in the strip reported no trade...
Looking around for a tough uncommitted officer to handle the strike and its expected wave of assassinations and counter-bombings, Lacoste chose tall, hawk-nosed Brigadier General Jacques Massu, commander of the 10th Parachute Division. Massu moved in a rock-hard force of 20,000 green- and red-bereted paratroopers, legionnaires and spahis to take over the city of Algiers and its teeming Casbah. Troops stood outside stores and restaurants frisking every passerby, man and woman. All parcels were opened to prevent bombs from being planted in public places by anybody, European or Moslem. At least two soldiers rode every...