Word: quailed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...test was a problem in logistics (troop movement), worked out by Major General George S. Patton, corps commander for the exercise. One afternoon the Fourth bivouacked in the Georgia hills, routing out buzzing coveys of quail to hide their machines under bush and scrub growth. Somewhere north of them the Second went into action against a mythical foe. At dawn the Second was moving north and the Fourth was in support...
Today he paints little else. On a hilly, wooded seven-acre farm about eight miles from Atlanta, he lives with his buxom wife, a family of wild turkeys, two Canada geese, three mallard ducks, a sparrow hawk, two pigeons and three quail. The turkeys roam all over the yard, crowd around him while he paints, begging for grapes which he throws them between brushstrokes. Armed with a .410 gun and a special hunting permit allowing him one pair of any Georgia species per year, he makes frequent trips to south Georgia to shoot and trap models for his pictures...
...Wisconsin farmers and their wives. This year, even after the show had opened, rustic painters from the backwoods continued to arrive, toting rolls of canvas and bits of wood. One of them, Walter Thorpe of Baraboo, Wis., shyly unrolled two laboriously drawn pictures entitled Rattlesnake and Covey of Quail. Painter Curry was Impressed, hung them both immediately...
...Presume. Nick Fatool plays some very fancy drums, and Billy Butterfield takes a muted trumpet chorus in the Cootie Williams tradition. The boys wind up with a lot of whacky riffs which give Shaw opportunity to show a little technique if nothing else. Reverse is called When the Quail Come Back to San Quentin, and Scarlatti would have appreciated what harpsichordist Johnny Guarneri does to some of his own ideas (VICTOR)...Benny Goodman's latest twelve inch recording, Superman, is another elaborate Eddie Sauter orchestration, and features Cootie Williams pyrotechnics all the way through. There's also some tenor...
...Quail trials are old stuff to Albany. But last week's event was something new-different from any field trial ever held in the U. S. Brainchild of a native named Richard Tift and backed by rich sportsmen including Coca-Cola Chairman Robert W. Woodruff, Manhattan Banker William C. Potter (Guaranty Trust), Walter C. Teagle (Standard Oil), this trial was an invitation affair, to determine the nation's best quail dog. To compete for this new crown came 16 "masters," chosen on performance at 53 recognized trials during the past two years...