Word: hawkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...said the letter, "he was the sharpest cadet ever to hit the runways at Maxwell Field. He soloed after four hours, slow-rolled after 20. By the time he reached Basic, he could do a splitS from 2,000 feet; in Advanced, he could fly instruments like a night hawk, and he'd give his instructor the jitters by touching wing tips in formation...
Welterweight Billy Graham had fought Champion Kid Gavilan three times before. Irish Billy took a split decision in one of two nontitle bouts. Cuba's "Kid Hawk" won the other, plus a title defense against Billy-also on split decisions. But the last time Slugger Graham tangled with Boxer Gavilan, Billy's admirers were bitter as they left Madison Square Garden. They muttered darkly that Billy had been robbed; they began calling him "the champ without the crown...
...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...