Word: hawking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...training for missile-era airmen and ground troops-something neither Cape Canaveral nor White Sands is equipped to do. Aircraft squadrons fire their air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles over the PMR's vast instrumentation almost every morning. Marine Corps antiaircraft missile battalions set up their Hawk batteries on the offshore islands of Santa Barbara Channel and fire away at the PMR-launched drones. British and Canadian Thor crews get their first actual experience in firing their missiles over the PMR-training they cannot get at home...
...million-dollar Atlantic Sands Motel was shattered in Rehoboth Beach, Del., just part of that resort city's $50 million damage. Helicopters laboriously carried 800 residents off Virginia's Chincoteague Island; some 2,000 others left when buses got through. The tides swamped resort facilities at Kitty Hawk, N.C., dumped sand into luxury hotels as far south as Miami Beach...
...chopped 18 strokes off her average in two years, occasionally cracks 80. drives up to 285 yards, has won several Negro tournaments. "I have," says she, "a God-given talent for being able to do things with a ball." - Almost half a century after he entered public life, forceful, hawk-faced Carl Atwood Hatch, 72, decided to call it a day. Harried by failing eyesight, the onetime (1933-49) Democratic Senator from New Mexico reluctantly retired from the fed eral judgeship he has held since his depar ture from Washington. But mindful that appointments to the federal bench carry lifetime...
...Mediterranean" and who bankrolled Francisco Franco's climb to dictatorship; of injuries sustained two weeks ago when his Cadillac crashed head on into a banking competitor's car; in Madrid. Though he was born penniless on Majorca and remained illiterate until the age of 40, hawk-featured March (pronounced Mark) scaled from stevedore to smuggler to shipowner, won over the Spanish tobacco monopoly, sold to both sides during both World Wars, gained control of much of Spain's banking, brewing, mining, farming, utilities, newspapers-and its politics-and later tried to buy respectability from those who denied...
...George Smathers suggested another on Cape Canaveral. In Utah a move was under way to add another n to the half-completed Glen Canyon Dam. Glenn's space capsule, Friendship 7, was consigned to the Smithsonian Institution, to rest in hallowed glory beside the Wright Brothers' Kitty Hawk biplane, Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis and Wiley Post's Winnie...