Word: quailed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stocks that panicky investors dumped on the market. The specialists had no assurance prices would not keep falling until their fortunes were decimated-though the market rallied next day. To outsiders, Coleman's profession seems like gambling on a scale to make a Las Vegas bettor quail...
...South. Next morning Ike boarded his Air Force Boeing 707 jet at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., flew to the 14,000-acre Blue Springs, Ga. plantation of W. Alton ("Pete") Jones, chairman of the executive committee of Cities Service Co., to put in a couple of days hunting quail...
...just "as soon as they feed me." Right after lunch in Pete Jones's three-story white colonial mansion. Ike turned out in a rust-colored suède jacket over a tan cashmere shirt. In 3½ hours the President's party flushed 26 coveys of quail, and Ike himself, using a 20-gauge automatic shotgun, brought down eight birds. Next day he returned to the hunt, bagged his legal limit of twelve...