Word: quailed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What comes out of Lester Young's saxophone sounds to some people like a snow shovel being dragged along a bare sidewalk. Peewee Russell's distinctive improvisations have been compared to those of a dying quail. But neither simile is apropos in the case of Bud Freeman. His playing is not as raucous as Young's nor as feeble as Russell's. It is subdued, vibratoed, and a little raspy like the sound of an electric shaver after it has been dropped a couple of times...
...stronger . . . no more adaptable or beautiful. . . . Arguments about the decline of the individual ... I do not take too seriously. . . . When I see some boys cruising in their patched-up jalopy, they seem just as much in harmony with their world as any . . . young savage creeping up on a quail with his throwing-stick...
Congress had provided the legislation (the "G.I. Bill of Rights"), and Harry Truman had provided the man. It was one of the President's best appointments: General Omar N. Bradley, the "Doughboys' General." He had not wanted the job; he had wanted to rest and shoot quail. But he walked into the old grey Veterans Administration Building in Washington, said modestly, "My name's Bradley," and sat down...
...Male Quail. In Gloucester, N.J., police investigated women drivers' complaints about wolfish whistles at a certain intersection, flushed a nearby covey of quail...
Painfully shy, he shunned school athletics for solitary quail-shooting in the woods, sprouted too rapidly to a frail and awkward...