Word: hawking
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...brought out a sleek, sausage-shaped ferret named Mookie. The three tiny bells on his neck tinkling, Mookie was launched down the rabbit hole. The Jagermeister (hunt master) watched intently as Mookie's master raised his gauntleted left arm and spoke soothingly to the malevolent-looking hawk tethered to his wrist. "Steady, Diana. Steady, pretty girl," whispered the hunter. Diana's pale yellow eyes glared balefully at her master...
...rabbit bounded out of a nearby hole and fled across the heather in a series of bobtailed bounces, heading straight for a patch of scrub fir trees. Diana spotted the quarry almost instantly. When the rabbit was about 75 yards away, Falconer Wolfgang Stehle suddenly called "Habicht frei" (Hawk free) and released the thong which bound straining Diana to his. wrist. Wings pounding for quick altitude, Diana flashed after the rabbit. Closing fast, she wheeled into a vertical bank between two fir trees and plummeted downward for the strike...
...Hollywood studios had released, were filming or planning more than 20 sea pictures, ranging from documentaries (e.g., Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us) to history (e.-g., Nearer My God to Thee, a story of the Titanic). But most of them were just wet westerns-The Golden Hawk, City Beneath the Sea and Yankee Buccaneer...
...make his second try at deposing the champ with the crown. From the first bell, Gavilan had Graham fighting just the way he wanted him to. When bullish Billy charged in, cat-quick Gavilan feinted him into leading, then countered with jabs as swift as the beat of a hawk's wing; by Round 2, Billy's nose was bloodied...
Sparingly using his famed bolo punch the Kid kept battering Graham's head, shut one eye, half-shut the other. After 15 rounds, Graham was hanging on; this time Kid Hawk's decision was unanimous...