Word: hawking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Time of Hope begins in 1914, when Lewis is nearly nine, the son of a hawk-proud mother and a run-rabbit father who fetches up in bankruptcy court. Lewis is soon left with an aunt's legacy of ?300 and his mother's dying injunction to make something of himself. Almost awed by his presumption, he decides to be a lawyer, and it becomes a question of which will give out first-his money, his marks, or his health. Sheer grit gets him to the Inns of Court...
Quick Book. Hall's preparation for blocking a shot begins even before the opposing forwards hurtle toward him. He tries to anticipate how his Black Hawk defensemen will hit the attackers so he can guess who will wind up on the firing line. Once he picks out the potential shooter, Hall quickly recalls the "book" on that player's strengths and weaknesses; e.g., Montreal's Boom Boom Geoffrion is likely to aim a long shot at the right side...
Room 455 at Hoover High School in Glendale, Calif, contains a red-tailed hawk that eats horsemeat, a sinister 8-ft. anaconda, hordes of white rats, a map of every ant colony in the vicinity and George Cassell, 28, an exuberant young man who grew up at the foot of Mt. Shasta with a trout rod in his hand, football on his mind and no thought of study. As it turned, out, he was destined to make Room 455 just about the most popular teen-age hangout in Glendale. Since he teaches biology-one of the deadlier subjects...
...great pitchers in baseball's record book are mostly names out of a distant past, men like Christy Mathewson. Cy Young, Walter Johnson and Grover Alexander. But since 1946 a hawk-nosed lefthander with a marvelously smooth motion has been setting down National League batters with such consistency that he now must be classed with the giants of the game. Last week Milwaukee's 39-year-old Warren Spahn could look back on another superb season at an age when most stars have long since retired to sell insurance or peddle beer...
...every way it was a wonderful foot race. In at least one way it told more about the 1960 Olympics than any other single event. For nearly three laps, the winner-a hawk-nosed, crane-legged fellow with a familiar, loping stride-stayed back with the pack in the i.soo-meter race. Then, with disheartening ease, he moved past the leaders and began to draw away. Rounding the last turn, he saw his coach waving a white shirt as a signal that he had a chance to break his own world record of 3:36. Thereupon Australia's Herb...