Word: quailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Observant biologists have long known that among such game birds as quail, partridge, pheasant and grouse, all the eggs in a nest tend to hatch at about the same time-even though they were laid several hours apart. The value of the phenomenon seems obvious: it enables the mother bird to leave the nest for food and protect her brood without worrying about any unhatched eggs. But how is the hatching synchronization achieved? No one has known. Now it appears that scientists were simply not listening hard enough to hear the obvious answer...
Working with nests of quail eggs, Cambridge University Research Psychologist Margaret Vince used sensitive instruments to record the movements and sounds of quail embryos during the last three days of their incubation period. Some twelve to 18 hours before hatching, she discovered, the eggs began to emit faint and intermittent clicks in time with the breathing of the embryo. The clicking gradually became louder and more regular, drowning out the sound of breathing, until it suddenly stopped only minutes before the eggs hatched...
...venial sifts against the language seem to amuse rather than affront him. Under ROOFTOP, he complains mildly: "What would a rooftop be, anyway? Use housetop or just plain roof." He quotes a recipe. "Now throw in two tablespoons full of chopped parsley and cook ten minutes more. The quail ought to be tender by then." Then Bernstein makes his point: "Never mind the quail, how are we ever going to get those tablespoons tender? The word is tablespoonfuls, no matter how illogical it seems...
...against flying insects. Aside from a Robert Trent Jonesdesigned golf course, featuring a famed 9th hole where the player must drive the ball across 100 ft. of water to a green surrounded by five sand traps, Ponte Vedra has its own 10,000-acre hunting preserve, stocked with turkey, quail and mallard duck. Judge Harold Medina each winter rents a one-bedroom-and-parlor suite overlooking the Atlantic. When Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge visits the resort, he stays with his sister-in-law and her husband, the Scott Shepherds, at their $70,000 home...
...Waldorf chain, which is trying to upgrade its image, menus and income, should be able to pick up some ideas from its new partner. Restaurant Associates specializes in distinctive touches, from a sybaritic menu at the Forum (truffle-stuffed quail wrapped in Macedonian vine leaves) to the farm market displays of fresh vegetables, fruits and gourds that decorate the Top of the Fair restaurant at the World's Fair (which the firm took over this year). To wring a profit from its three restaurants in Manhattan's gargantuan new Pan American Building, President and Chief Executive Joseph...