Word: quails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Feathered Friends. Over Manhattan a chicken hawk peeled off, dived into the Bowery, strafed a stooping street cleaner from the rear. In Kansas City, Mrs. Roy Jordan stepped outside and transferred to her refrigerator a covey of 15 quail who had broken their necks trying to fly through the closed kitchen window. In Hollywood, Actress Jeff Donnell introduced the seeing-eye owl-a pressagent's idea of an efficient dimout guide for people in no particular hurry...
During the 1941 fall hunting season, Kalaf asked all quail hunters, but none had seen these strange birds. Then last week his young son Stanley rushed into the house with big news-back in the hills he had seen a hajjel hen with a large brood of chicks. Kalaf went out to check for himself, and there they were "chuk-chirrring" around as if they owned the Pinal Mountains-a development which may well come about, if the agile hajjel is as tough as Kalaf thinks...
...Russia Reynolds attended the famous banquet of 23 courses ("the three high spots were perhaps the mushrooms fried in sour cream, the sturgeon in champagne and the pilaf of quail") at which Stalin asked God to bless Franklin Roosevelt. Between courses Author Reynolds found time to tick off some neat thumb nail impressions of Soviet leaders...
...Carboloy's was cemented tungsten carbide, an exceedingly hard metal composition important for cutting tools. Remington Arms' was tetracene, an ammunition primer, which, the Justice Department contended, the ever-logical Germans licensed Remington to sell to the British "for shooting quail and pheasants but not for shooting Germans...
...Crimson will appear at breakfast tables as before, won't it? New candidates with five and six subjects will appear; they will hang breathlessly on the first words of the blond immigrant from D.C. and the serious spectacles from Newton; they will learn to write and cease to quail before professors, and their voices will change, even in two and a half years. There will always be believers in the power of the press and lovers of the potency of wine--right through the duration...