Word: quaile
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...there is a constant flow of people and ideas. Richard Nixon's lieutenants tried to protect Nixon from such intrusions. Within reason, Carter seems almost to welcome them. The White House operation is remarkably relaxed. Hamilton Jordan regularly dresses as if he were about to spend the afternoon quail hunting: sports shirt open at the neck, khaki work pants, heavy-duty boots. He, Jody Powell (shirtsleeves and vest), Zbigniew Brzezinski (baggy pants, Dagwood haircut) and others of the inner circle move calmly and freely in and out of the President's presence. They are respectful, at ease...
...counsel of the Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations, accused the Defense Department and Northrop Corp. of teaming up to shield the names of high officers who accepted company favors in violation of Defense Department conflict-of-interest rules. The officers accepted invitations to spend weekends shooting duck, geese and quail at Northrop's leased hunting preserve near Easton, Md., even though the company, a major defense contractor, is currently angling for a multibillion-dollar contract to build 800 F-18 jet fighters for the Navy...
...from Houston. Ryan, the son of an oil company supervisor, still lives in Alvin with his wife Ruth and three-year-old son Reid, and has no intention of abandoning his unpretentious country-boy life, despite a salary of more than $100,000 a year. A duck, deer and quail hunter in the offseason, Ryan complains that even Alvin (pop. 15,000) is getting too big. "Houston is encroaching and I'll probably have to move out," he says. There are a lot of hitters in the American League who wish he would move out of baseball-fast...
Four continents, three children, and as many colleges later than that first trans-cultural entry into higher education at a tender 15, I am soon to be entered in the rolls of the academically adept. Yet I quail before the suggestics that I might not belong in the more 'legitimate' learning atmosphere of our college-age young...
...Angeles Pet Cemetery at Calabasas, which could have been the scene of Evelyn Waugh's novel; there dogs that belonged to Lionel Barrymore and Rudolph Valentino are buried, and religious rites are routinely performed at the funeral. One expensive plot is occupied by a goldfish, another by a quail...