Word: quail
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...Webster," the famed frog of Mark Twain's story, who could "get over more ground at one straddle than any animal of his breed you ever see," lost to another freshly caught frog when the rival owner filled Dan'l full of quail shot "pretty near up to his chin...
...horseshoe is embedded in the cement doorstep, framing a footprint of Glen as a four-year-old. He does much of his work at home, has a Dictaphone in the library where he wrote his book, Where I Stand. For recreation he likes to hunt (pheasant, quail, deer), play chess, take Glen fishing, go for long walks alone. He has few close friends outside his family, sees his father and brothers often (brother William is a sheet-metal worker, brother Elmer a grocer, brother Arthur a state employee). He has supported himself with articles and lectures...
...most liberal of Southern Democrats could no longer buck the bitterness engendered in the South by the President's civil-rights program. Cried Senator Lister Hill of Alabama: "There cannot be Democratic Party unity with President Truman as [our] nominee." Senator Claude Pepper of Florida, no man to quail before Southern bigots, declared that the South should send unpledged delegates to the party's July convention...
...Attorney General Tom Clark had, as you say, been dining on "quail full of buckshot" [TIME, Feb. 23], it would have been a neat trick...
...quail of which there is to be enough left to dine on, must be shot with "birdshot...