Hints and tips:
...Obviously, there is a small but noisy cohort of China hawks on the Tory benches who are pushing Sunak to be more hardline, but he’s resisting that....
...This time, however, the British are slavishly following the Americans, with the UK prime minister allowing himself to be persuaded by Dick Cheney, US vice-president, and other White House hawks that an act...
...writers including Louisa May Alcott, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Pulitzer Prize-winning David McCullough – some of whom wrote in the top-floor Silent Reading Room, overlooking the brood of red-tailed hawks...
...for Cold War client regimes and backing the reintroduction of multi-party politics. 1993 Eighteen US troops are killed during a failed raid in Mogadishu, in which Somali militiamen shoot down a Black Hawk...
...Sometimes I come upon them on walks – a gull’s fallen quill along a beach; a red-tailed hawk’s tail-feather landed on the dry stone walls amid the woodland tracks at the back of my Hudson Valley house....
...“I think Perry would sneer at the term compassionate conservative and get out his red pen and cross out compassionate,” says Harold Cook, a Texan Democratic strategist....
...Was it Harold Pinter they called the great compressionist? I would lay claim to that in my own area of expertise.”...
...His own military experience was limited to the brief Black Hawk war in Illinois in 1832 – he said he fought more mosquitoes than Indians....
...Uncertain how to face the hawks in his cabinet next day, the prime minister turns to his cabinet secretary for advice....
...Even then he had to be coaxed to join the groundbreaking Max Roach/Clifford Brown Quintet in place of saxophonist Harold Land. There followed a hugely fertile period for Rollins....
...The pictures of Orville and Wilbur Wright flying the Kitty Hawk from Big Hill in 1902 are fascinating, as is a shot of their neatly arrayed kitchen....
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