Word: quailed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kris Quail Rochester, Mich...
...pair settle down to chomp through civilization and its discontents along with their quail. Gregory does most of the talk ing, and such disagreements as they have are politely put. Shawn seeks a certain comfort in routine; Gregory obviously seeks the intensification of experience that can result from a daily questioning of one's routines. Neither wants to pick a fight or, for that matter, make a convert. At most, it would seem, André wants to make certain that his odyssey was not in vain, that he learned something for his trouble. And, it must be said, there...
When Reagan was Governor of California, he ignored the political boodle that lay all around for the taking, even the booze. The President dotes on macaroni and cheese, not quail. If left alone, he eats hamburger, or bacon and eggs...
...unsatisfied. Only half a dozen students have regularly been involved in the discussion. Overnight he devises a trick to pull the others in. His solution is ROBERT BURGESS a familiar piece of pedagogical gear: a blackboard diagram. The way Adler uses it, however, would make less self-confident teachers quail. For his goal, it turns out, is not to illustrate a point but to start an argument. To do so, Adler returns to Garrick's first question, but adds a new twist. The blackboard diagram contains conflicting statements about the nature of beauty. Position A holds that beauty...
...help relieve the long hours of isolation. The monotony was also broken by the visits of other cosmonauts, who arrived in Soyuz ferry craft, the workhorses of the Soviet manned space effort. In addition to regular supplies, they carried mail, such special snacks as fresh borsch, strawberries and quail pate, not to mention a guitar. Though Salyut was designed to last 18 months, it continues to function thanks to on-board repairs by the cosmonauts plus periodic shipments of fuel, food, water, air and equipment...