Word: quailed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...diameter red lenses, now being made in test-market quantities, will cost about 20? a pair and last the laying life of the bird, about a year. Wise says the tranquilizing effect works not only for hens, but for turkeys, pheasants and even pigs. Not, however, for quail. Far from being calmed, they go berserk...
...Jack Frost will be pinching things up. Old Mr. Winter will be standing in the door. Hickory tree there will be yellow. Sweetgum red, hickory yellow ...' He went along rapping the tree trunks with his knuckle. 'Magnolia and liveoak never die. Remember that,.. And run, little quail, run, for - we'll be after...
Worthwhile leaders, believes Kissinger, may quail before the Deity in their prayers, but on the job they never flinch. "To assume on your shoulders the responsibility for the people is an act of arrogance in itself," declares Kissinger. "Most action must be taken when a leader cannot see his way clearly to the end. What is needed is a curious combination of egomania and humility. If he is too much impressed with the size of the challenge, he does nothing. If he is too little impressed, he gets into trouble...
...France, where le peau rouge has always been an object of romantic fascination and, lately, of fashionable imitation. French visitors are among the most avid customers at the growing number of U.S. stores that specialize in such Indian artifacts as beads, bandannas, belts, jewelry and even earrings of mallard, quail and pheasant feathers (available at Manhattan's Tepee Town for only $3.98). The most sought-after cowhide moccasins, by Minnetonka of Minneapolis, cost less than $20 at most American stores but sell for $60 in Paris. (They will be available in four colors this fall.) On the other hand...
...total crop loss thus far is about $450 million. Corn, which does not pollinate in triple-digit heat, is hardest hit; but soybeans, hay, fruits and vegetables, tobacco and peanuts are also being badly damaged. Marshall Spray, an Augusta game-bird farmer, has lost more than 25,000 quail since the onset of the heat wave. Said he: "If somebody doesn't help me, I'm out of business...