hawk
(verb)
To sell.
Examples of hawk in the following topics:
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Madison and the Pressure for War
- The war hawks were primarily from southern and western states of the United States.
- There was never any official roster of war hawks, and no universally acknowledged list exists.
- The war hawks advocated going to war with Britain for reasons related to the interference of the British Royal Navy in American shipping, which was hurting the American economy and, the war hawks believed, injuring American prestige.
- A portrait of Henry Clay, the leader of the war hawks' western faction, painted after the War of 1812.
- Discuss the reasons for war with Great Britain proposed by the "war hawks"
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Urban Recreation
- Day also introduced a new way of selling papers, known as the London Plan, in which newsboys hawked their newspapers on the streets.
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Popular Culture
- Newsboys were employed to hawk the papers on street corners.
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Origins of the War of 1812
- House of Representatives, a group of young Democratic-Republicans known as the "war hawks" came to the forefront in 1811.
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Newspapers
- Day also introduced a new way of selling papers, known as the London Plan, in which newsboys hawked their newspapers on the streets.
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Clinton and Foreign Policy
- A Black Hawk helicopter was shot down, and U.S.