Word: hawking
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...became gentlemen heralded by a hawk brandishing a spear, and the motto Non sans Droit (Not Without Right), which Ben Jonson promptly parodied as "Not Without Mustard...
Countess Potolska sits in the sun-dazed plazas of Mexico, but her eyes blindly stare at aristocratic Polish drawing rooms, the image of Pilsudski, and her 20-year-old son standing in the streets of Warsaw in grim defiance of Nazi soldiery. Hawk-eyed and hawk-beaked, the countess is a Polish Jewess and a refugee, one of the world's involuntary tourists whose heaviest luggage is memory...
Through the milling crowds in front of Moscow's department stores, furtive figures accosted shoppers to hawk wares hidden in briefcases, paper bags and coat pockets. After striking a bargain, the hawkers disappeared into the throng before agents from the "Department for Struggle Against Swindle and Speculation" could lay on the heavy hand of the law. The trade, according to Krokodil, Russia's official humor magazine, which sees nothing funny in the situation: a brisk black market in privately and illegally made woolen jerseys, caps, scarves, mittens and T shirts...
...hawk-nosed alcoholic from northern California asked the Oxnard man what he was running away from. The answer: "I don't think it's running away. It's learning to live with yourself. Even after you get out, you're still an ex-con. They can't cure you of what you did that got you in here. You've got to live with that...
Charles Francis Adams placed the chief blame for Raytheon's money needs on its rapid expansion to increase production of the Hawk and Sparrow missiles. In adding 10,000 new employees in the past twelve months, Raytheon has suffered a drop in efficiency, incurred heavy expenses that are often avoided with slower growth...