Word: hawkshaw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brow, B-B Eyes and 88 Keyes (the larcenous pianist). But the villains never got the best of Dick Tracy, the hatchet-jawed, hawk-nosed dean of comic-strip detectives. Last week, Tracy, his snap-brim hat and two-way radio intact, celebrated his 50th year as a cartoon hawkshaw. So did his creator, Chester Gould, 80. Gould, now in affluent retirement in Woodstock, Ill., first dubbed his hero "Plainclothes Tracy," The moniker soon changed and later, so did Tracy. After an 18-year courtship, he finally wed his blond sweetie Tess Trueheart, and, says Gould: "I left Tracy...