Word: falcon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...duck hawk is a large and rare falcon. The pigeons will have a tough job trying to escape its speedy dive, for it is one of the fastest birds in the world...
Last week at Coltishall airfield in Norfolk, Blackie, a prize tercel (male falcon), his sister Collette and two other lady falcons, Odette and Isolde, were hard at work at new peacetime jobs. Eight other falcons were busy at Driffield in Yorkshire. Each day a thickly gloved trainer took them out on the field and gingerly removed their hoods. Then (in falconer's lingo) "they rang up from the fist, attained their pitch at 1,000 or more feet up, waited on until the game was served to them," and swooped to the kill at speeds up to 300 m.p.h...
...Western world tends to think of the Arab as a falcon-eyed warrior on a white horse. That Arab is still around, but he is far less numerous than the disease-ridden wretches who lie in the hot streets, too weak, sick and purposeless to roll over into the shade...
Anything that displaces more water than its weight will be used for the emigration. Some are sailing on the Marine boats (Jumper, Falcon, Tiger, etc.,), while others will be racing across on the Queens (Elizabeth and Mary) or on other massive ships of the line. A few fortunate ones will be making their Odyssey by air, but they all want the same thing: to see Europe as quickly as possible...
...Falcon ("Bunk") Guthrie...