Word: quailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...favors for friends. He established a 100,000-acre game preserve in Choctaw County, to which he brought planeloads of folks from Washington and all points south. He could put them in 69 beds in his big house, and he loved to send them out hunting deer, wild turkey, quail, dove, wild boar and even buffalo...
When sprouts break out, Slippery as fish, I quail, lean to beginnings, sheath...
...wonderfully pacified and cleaned up since he first heard those Grimm stories or Gulliver made his horrible travels. In The Happy Hunter (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard; $2.75), for example, Roger Duvoisin writes and draws about a Mr. Bobbin, a hunter who never shot any foxes, deer, raccoons, woodchucks, squirrel or quail. Duvoisin has the blessing of the Christian Science Monitor on the book's blurb, but it is going to be a traumatic moment for the Duvoisin reader when he graduates to Gunsmoke and learns that people shoot not only animals but other people. Then there is Patrick Michael Kevin...
...last week hundreds of lowly mice, rats, chickens and quail, and even a few grunting pigs, gave the lie to the great man by leading near-normal lives without a germ anywhere in them or on them. The fact that such animals can now be raised in quantity lets researchers, for the first time, study a "pure" infectious disease with only one kind of germ present. And truly germfree surgery on human patients, fulfilling a century-old dream, will soon be possible...
...germfree on the inside, and its shell can easily be sterilized in a germicidal bath. The "tank" in which the birds are to live can be heated to serve as an in cubator; when the chicks hatch, they can feed and fend for themselves at once. The Japanese quail is even better than the chicken because the birds begin to lay when about seven weeks old (as against seven months for chickens...