Word: quails
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...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...
...test was a problem in logistics (troop movement), worked out by Major General George S. Patton, corps commander for the exercise. One afternoon the Fourth bivouacked in the Georgia hills, routing out buzzing coveys of quail to hide their machines under bush and scrub growth. Somewhere north of them the Second went into action against a mythical foe. At dawn the Second was moving north and the Fourth was in support...
Today he paints little else. On a hilly, wooded seven-acre farm about eight miles from Atlanta, he lives with his buxom wife, a family of wild turkeys, two Canada geese, three mallard ducks, a sparrow hawk, two pigeons and three quail. The turkeys roam all over the yard, crowd around him while he paints, begging for grapes which he throws them between brushstrokes. Armed with a .410 gun and a special hunting permit allowing him one pair of any Georgia species per year, he makes frequent trips to south Georgia to shoot and trap models for his pictures...
...Wisconsin farmers and their wives. This year, even after the show had opened, rustic painters from the backwoods continued to arrive, toting rolls of canvas and bits of wood. One of them, Walter Thorpe of Baraboo, Wis., shyly unrolled two laboriously drawn pictures entitled Rattlesnake and Covey of Quail. Painter Curry was Impressed, hung them both immediately...