Word: courtyard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dusk when tall, lanky Major Winston W. Ehrgott of New York City turned his jeep into the flagstone courtyard of the Greek headquarters at Komotini, in eastern Thrace. An American adviser with the Greek Army, he had been promised a chance to observe a cavalry patrol that would go out that night against nearby Communist Andartes (guerrillas). Inside headquarters, a beribboned Greek colonel offered him a glass of cognac. A night patrol? Surely the American was joking. The colonel explained: "We never move cavalry at night. Horses fall down; you might run into ambushes...
...last week, the Foreign Ministers' conference broke up early. It mattered little, for only disagreement was on the order of the day (see below). King George and Queen Elizabeth were giving an "evening party" at Buckingham Palace. The Russians arrived with their bodyguards, but left them in the courtyard. In the lofty Blue Drawing Room, Molotov and colleagues stuck together in a tight little knot and touched neither the champagne cup nor the whiskey and sherry. They did not even smoke. George Marshall stuck with U.S. Ambassador Douglas. Winston Churchill, looking as gloomy as his frock coat, left early...
...knows," he said, and waved at a woman in black sitting on the far side of the courtyard, where she commanded a view of every entry. A girl halfway across the court said the same thing. I asked if she were the concierge and the girl answered: "That is what the secret police call her." When I got to the beady-eyed woman herself, she gave me the number...
Under the leadership of Charley Vivian, the Dunces rehearse their growing catalogue of numbers in the Dunster Large Common Room two evenings a week. When the night air is warm, the windows are thrown wide, and the strains come tumbling out into the courtyard for weary studiers to absorb...
...Kirkland band and Bucky Harrison sounded off last night as 150 Deacons swarmed into the House courtyard for a pre-Eliot game football rally...