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Word: superhawk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Politics Note: College students in the Boston area were informed by a circular that a radical named Michael Harrington was running for Congress against a "superhawk." Student volunteers saw a Harrington victory as a good omen for the October Moratorium. Many were certain that this Michael Harrington was the Michael Harrington who wrote The Other America and Toward a Democratic Left. No, that man is another Michael Harrington. The Sixth District may not be ready...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: Brass TacksHarrington's Strange Majority | 10/8/1969 | See Source »

...Negro attorney, in that year's Democratic primary. This year, in the aftermath of Martin Luther King's assassination, another Negro attorney, George Payton Jr., 39, decided to try. Scraping together the $2,000 registration fee with loans from relatives, Payton attacked Rivers as a "warmonger and superhawk," stumped for a $2 minimum wage, expanded social security, and liberal federal housing programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Carolina: Mendelian Domain | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

...craggily handsome Stanford graduate and Korean War Marine hero, McCloskey tagged Shirley a superhawk and won a lot of points by her refusal to debate the issues with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: Peace & War in San Mateo | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

...Defense Secretary McNamara's attempts to economize on aerospace purchases. Prone to be overexcited by Soviet technical achievements, the magazine supports the establishment of an anti-ballistic missile system. An Air Force intelligence officer in World War II, later public relations director of United Aircraft, Hotz is a superhawk to the point of suggesting that the Sino-Soviet split may be a ruse to lull the U.S. into a false sense of security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: The Big Sky Beat | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

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