Word: hawks
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...Hawk-eyed, didactic General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery is the darling of the British public, the despair of the brass-hatted British War Office. Many a tender-skinned staff officer has quoted an apocryphal toast, usually attributed to Winston Churchill: "To General Montgomery! Indomitable in defeat, indefatigable in attack, insufferable in victory!" When Monty turned up in London last week, primed to take command of British ground troops in the invasion of Western Europe, he had again endeared himself to his men if not to the War Office. He had left with them a forthright farewell summary of the Eighth...
...petulant, hawk-voiced George Burns has played straight man so long that he is sometimes given to echoing questions addressed to him. If a waiter asks "What are you going to eat today?" Burns is likely to reply "What am I going to eat today?" The character of George Burn's offstage conversation is better suggested by the fact that his best friends include Jack Benny, Harpo Marx, Lou Holtz and Bert Lahr. Though he travels in such fast company; Straight Man Burns has no trouble keeping ahead...
...Hawk. It is Claire Chennault's face that stops a man, meeting him for the first time. The skin is burnt and leather-beaten by the sun to a permanent brown, cut and scarred by razor-sharp lines that drop perpendicularly about his mouth. About the eyes sky-strain has woven a lacework of crow's-feet. Within this net work, two coal-black eyes brood and smolder. Said an artist assigned to do a portrait of the General : "That man has the face of a hawk...
...hawk face is not a cruel face. Rather, it expresses a tension bred of Chennault's whole mature life. A Louisiana cotton planter's son, he worked his way through college, taught in a country school. In World War I he enlisted as a private, got a commission at an officers' training camp, transferred from the infantry into aviation. Discharged in April 1920 (he did not go overseas), Chennault returned to his cotton plantation in the Louisiana delta. Several months later he was back in the Army, a first lieutenant in the Air Corps...
...flies is to pour gasoline on maggots where they breed. Flyswatter stuff isn't going to win the war." Chennault knows that maggots breed within the great cities of Japan, and that the only place from which they may now be reached is China. But he smiles his hawk's smile and says: "I've been sitting here taking it for six years, and I guess I'll just keep taking it until I can give it back...