Word: quail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from France, passion fruit and paw-paw from Africa, canned minnows from Poland, hearts of palm from Brazil, 180 different varieties of honey, and Scandinavian sardines packed in six kinds of sauce. There are instant coffees from at least a score of countries, including Hungary and Arabia; there are quail eggs and cuttle fish (a member of the squid family) packed in their own ink. And there are betel nuts, which, excepting coffee and tea, rank as the most widely used narcotic in the world...
...groves, will preserve Irvine's agricultural tradition ?partly because of its soil and climate, partly because Pereira feels that agriculture is essential to the economic health of the area. The top tier, 30,000 acres of rugged peaks and ragged canyons?a mountain wilderness of deer, coyote and quail, pungent with sage and stippled with cactus?will be reserved for recreation, and it will take considerable population pressure before any residential development will be permitted...
...nothing except his color and his gun. Negroes, surprisingly, outnumber the whites by almost a three to two margin, but their standard of living is extremely low. Most are croppers or tenants on large plantations owned primarily by persons living in the North who came South to shoot quail in the winter. The Negroes are given a two-room shack, paid about $20 a week, and are at the constant beck and call of the boss man. Eking out a living becomes an overwhelming problem to these people, especially in the face of incessant harrassment and oppression, if not actual...
...because he speaks menu French and probably reads the food page in Playboy. And of course he is a martini crank ("vodka not gin, shaken not stirred"), a tailor's dummy (Benson, Perry and Whitley, 9 Cork Street, London W.1), and a blood sportsman who would rather hunt quail (Eunice Gay son) than Red birds...
Competitor dailies may quail at a trend toward consolidation that has reduced the ranks of Danish dailies by 50 in the last 15 years. Tidende remains calm. After all, its only true competitor is in the family: the tabloid B.T., which has crept within 2,000 of its parent's 166,000 morning circulation. Besides, Tidende is not just a newspaper. It is a mirror into which the Dane looks each day to see himself. "Tidende is an absolutely decent paper," says Dr. Vincent Naeser, principal stockholder and great-great-grandson of Ernst Berling. "It reflects the Danish mind...