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Word: hawkings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...runner-up, Fair-Dealing former Governor Sid McMath, 41, ran out of campaign funds; to pay for a final ad, his staff had to pass the hat around. McClellan's ally, Governor Francis Cherry, failed to win a majority. In the runoff he faces a McMath crony: hawk-nosed Orval Faubus, 43, former state-highway director, a self-educated, match-chewing mountaineer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Same Old South | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

Outside the Chicago Maternity Center, in the sweltering slums just south of the Loop, sidewalk vendors hawk their wares: secondhand suits, used razor blades, bottles of Dr. Pryor's Jinx Removing Bath Crystals. After dark, dope pushers, prostitutes and gangs of toughs prowl the soiled asphalt. Yet, unlike cops and truant officers, center staffers are seldom molested in the neighborhood. Even the hoods greet them on their rounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Baby Commandos | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...conscientious disposition. He took no part or interest in the traditional blood feuds between Brahman and Thakore that raged constantly in the Rajput countryside west of the Taj Mahal. He clothed himself in the handspun cloth of humility known as Khadi to show his allegiance to Gandhi, and in hawk-nosed, dignified manhood, he became one of the most respected members of the local government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Terror of Kings | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

Early in April, Laborite Aneurin Bevan sideswiped a bus at Gerrard's Cross in Beaconsfield, recovered control of his Humber Hawk and sped on. Haled to Beaconsfield to face a magistrate last week, Nye made his feeble excuses: "I realize I should have stopped but I was anxious to avoid . . . publicity." The court brushed the plea aside, slapped a fine of $166.10 (including costs) on Britain's most freewheeling public figure and took away his license for three months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Hit & Runner | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

Thus the Harvard Bulletin, in the words of editor Philip W. Quigg of the Princeton Weekly, is "Possibly the only alumni magazine today that has to hawk subscriptions in competition with commercial publications like Time and Look...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: Alumni Bulletin: From Football to Frogs | 4/30/1954 | See Source »

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