Word: hawke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Admiral Stark, who ranked King by earlier appointment as a full Admiral, had charge of long-range planning, most young "war-hawk" naval officers, especially aviators, were sure Stark was not their man. Flying men called him a "battleship Admiral," had bitter words to say about the need for offensive spirit where Navy plans were made. "Betty" Stark also sat as chief of the Army-Navy Joint Board (of strategy), and some Army men were not too happy about that...
...wife, seven-month-old son and two dogs, he lives in an elaborately furnished studio in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, spends his summers at Rockport, Mass., where he helps run an art school between laborious sessions at his easel. Though he is an inveterate pencil sketcher and a hawk-eyed observer of nature, he uses few models, does all his serious painting at night...
Franklin Roosevelt, who occasionally talks through his hat but more often pulls rabbits out of it, last week pulled out a rabbit and threw him into the brier patch of Civilian Defense. The fierce-looking rabbit: hawk-faced, hawk-eyed James McCauley ("Chink") Landis, Dean of Harvard Law School. A precocious Princetonian and one of the keenest legal eaglets ever to swoop from Harvard Law School, Dean Landis was an early Brain Truster, as SEC chairman presided over a whipped Wall Street...
Williams became his own publisher, editor, record reviewer, news hawk, copy boy, and business manager, except for casual assistance here and there. Jazz Information was not making money; indeed, Williams didn't expect that it would, believing that his paper could never remain true to the standards he set for it and be commercially successful as well. But his constitution gave way before his bank account...
Sophomore, while Elmer Taylor, ball-hawk Bellboy, is a Senior...