Word: tomahawk
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...challenges for the America's Cup (1934 and 1937). This year both were racing twelve-metre boats (half the size of Cup boats). Along the Esplanade as well as within the Royal Yacht Squadron gates, the No. 1 controversy of the week was whether Sop-with's Tomahawk could beat Vanderbilt...
Poets want to take truth by the hand; prophets want to get truth by the tail. A hybrid of poet and prophet is tomahawk-faced Robinson Jeffers, almost as much famed in the U. S. for doing his writing in a stone tower, built by himself, over-looking California's Carmel Bay, as for his violent free-verse narratives and black-diamond lyrics in Tamar, Roan Stallion, The Women at Point Sur, Cawdor, et al. Jeffers' latest book, Such Counsels You Gave to Me, is predominantly in his prophetic vein. Its title-poem is a fast-moving narrative...
Both steelmaster and striker soon changed their tune. Methodically the troopers stopped invading C.I.O. sympathizers at the city line, disarmed the picket lines, confiscated weapons which included hatchets, axes, clubs, baseball bats, slingshots, blackjacks, brassknuckles, 15 sticks of dynamite, several buckets of pepper, a machete, a stone tomahawk and a bolo...
...after a nine-day siege by Indians and renegade whites, Boone's stockade is saved by a heavy rain-a deed of Providence so terrifying to the superstitious braves that they quit fighting. When the Virginia knaves have stolen with a legal writ the acres that defied the tomahawk, Boone and his men, Kentuckians now, turn to the trail again, westward into a waiting continent...
Indiana & Conservation: ". . . George Rogers Clark did battle against the tomahawk and the rifle. He saved for us the fair land that lay between the mountains and the Father of Waters. His task is not done. Though we fight with weapons unknown to him, it is still our duty to continue the saving of this fair land...