Word: hawking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...racing results), helping to give the city high health and housing standards and a government whose bonded indebtedness is only $30 million, one of the lowest metropolitan debts in the U.S. In this climate of civic rectitude, says Police Chief John W. Polcyn, the Journal "watches officials like a hawk. God help you if you get out of line. They take the flesh right off your bones...
William G. (for George) Bonelli is one of the noisiest, most powerful politicians in California. A hawk-beaked, hail-fellow rancher, lawyer and onetime associate professor, "Big Bill''* Bonelli, 58, wears wide-brimmed hats and. when the occasion demands, a Phi Beta Kappa key (won at the University of Southern California). He is also the boss of one of the most potent political agencies in the U.S. As chairman of the California State Board of Equalization, Bonelli supervises the tax assessments of big businesses; as the board member for Southern California, he hands out all liquor licenses from...
...generated electricity, but "bred" fissionable plutonium from U-235 at the same time, thus making it possible to utilize all of the uranium that can be extracted from the earth's surface for fuel. Said Westinghouse's President Gwilym Price: "The Idaho plant is the 'Kitty Hawk' of the atomic power industry...
Also, if newshen is supposed to be female for newshawk-well, you should call the fellow in charge of hawks at the Museum of Natural History. He says . . . the word falcon once was the English term for the female hawk. However, falconry now covers a family of hunting hawks, and a female hawk is simply called a female hawk. So futurely, if male reporters are to be known in TIME as newshawks, let's refer to the opposite species as female newshawks...
Fifty years ago today on the beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilber Wright pioneered in achieving flight with heavier-than-air craft. The associated industries that have grown up around the airplane during its half-century of existence new provide work for over half a million people. In the midst of the growth of these industries, a striking change has taken place in the attitude of the public toward aviation. Once considered a dream of impractical man, aviation today has an honored place among vocations and professions...