Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...implications were soon abroad, and within a day the sign of the flying red horse had changed to an off-white. But the effects were even broader; James B. Conant switched to Calvert because he liked its flaky texture; there was talk that the Reds bad found a new cover for their activities...
...Three Conferees dispersed under cover of an all but newsless fog of military security. But here & there was vouchsafed a glimpse-such as Franklin Roosevelt's afterdeck chats with Near Eastern potentates; here & there a sound, like the short snort from Socialism's old warhorse, George Bernard Shaw. Snorted Shaw: "[The Yalta Conference is] an impudently incredible fairy tale. . . . Will Stalin declare war on Japan as the price of surrender of the other two over Lublin? Not a word about it. Fairy tales, fairy tales, fairy tales. I for one should like to know what really passed...
...hedge, Nicky," she cried. "He never could come to the point. He's trying to cover up the fact that he wanted to eavesdrop on the Big Three Conference...
McGill's editorial page is often inconsistent and spotty, but it is the most widely read in Atlanta. His own folksy column outdraws every other feature in the paper. A better reporter than executive, McGill likes to travel (he has been overseas four times in five years) and cover big stories himself, whether a Gone With the Wind premiere or the Nürnberg trials. He now gets pretty much of a free hand from Publisher Clark Howell Jr., and has real hope of building up the Constitution's prestige to match its plant...
Parkman was a puritan with a romantic streak, a social snob, a mentally and physically sick man who exalted the strenuous life and cracked under it. The Journals, which cover trips to New England, Canada, Florida, the Northwest and Europe, are as remarkable for what Parkman missed as they are for the precocious talent with which he described what interested him. He was only 17 when he made his first entries, but he had already decided to become an historian. At 23 he made his tour of the Oregon Trail, wrote his most famous (but far from his best) book...