Word: quailed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Clark's Quail...
...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...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor, back in Florida to break the back of another winter, were pretty well set: the Duke applied for, and was awarded, his quail-shooting license...