Word: quails
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Some of Rayburn's predecessors as Speaker, notably Maine Republican Thomas Reed in the 1890s and Illinois Republican Joseph Cannon in the 1900s, were autocrats who ruled over the House like absolute monarchs. Sam Rayburn, though he exudes an authority that some times makes junior Congressmen quail when he speaks gruffly, has operated in the style of Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser, trying to get his way through persuasion and leadership. He has been called "the greatest compromiser since the Great Compromiser." To all new Democratic Congressmen he recites two rules: 1) "To get along, go along...
...have used unnecessary postage, shoots thema stiff A.P.K. reprimand if they have. As a hobby he collects, appropriately enough dime novels, e.g., the Liberty Boys, the Nick Carter series. But when it comes to houses, Kirby acts the tycoon. For fishing he keeps the Gaspé camp; for winter quail hunting he has a ten-room Civil War Plantation house on a lake in South Carolina; for football weekends he bought Chateau Chavaniac, a replica of Lafayette's villa in France, at Easton, Pa., frequently flies in a planeload of friends for Lafayette College games...
Your writer must have searched his soul and thesaurus long and hard before referring to Lyricist Alan Lerner's succession of therapists as a "pride of analysts." Pride of lions, yes; brace of quail, covey of partridges, indeed; but surely there can be no exact usage other than to refer to a group of my esteemed colleagues as a couch or complex of analysts. The term clutch has been proposed, but is clear evidence of resistance...
...municipal watchdog-with a tendency to yip at everything from murder to pay raises for Houston city councilmen. Alarmed at Houston's high murder rate, the Press labeled the city "Murdertown, U.S.A.," campaigned so relentlessly for tighter gun registration laws that it drew scathing mail from nearly every quail-hunting and skeet-shooting type in Texas. Last January, impatient with the slow-moving police investigation into the slaying of Houston Housewife Wilma Selby, the Press rapped the police in an editorial and posted a reward for the killer. The chastened police promptly bestirred themselves, within ten days collared...
...Hyannisport: "We're going to canvass every precinct." ¶The usual "independent volunteers" or ganization was set up, charged with luring not only independents and Republicans into the Kennedy camp, but also "dissident Democrats" - that is, Northern and Eastern Democrats who cannot stand Johnson, and Southern Democrats who quail at Jack. National Chairman: Denver Lawyer (and onetime University of Colorado All-America football hero) Byron ("Whizzer") White, 43. White was studying as a Rhodes scholar and Jack Kennedy was prowling around as the U.S. ambassador's son when they met at Oxford in 1939; they met again...