Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Holiday Mood. In London, when the Daily Herald sent a couple of reporters and three homing pigeons to cover a cross-Channel swim, the reporters came home, but the pigeons headed, respectively, for Paris, Marseille and the Riviera...
Chuck roast is our weekend standby. We brown it slowly in an old-fashioned iron Dutch oven or heavy aluminum roaster. Bacon drippings, onions, celery tops, bay leaves, parsley, salt & pepper add flavor. When the meat is browned on both sides I add a little water, cover tightly, and let it barely simmer on top of the stove for about three hours, occasionally adding a little more water. Potatoes, carrots and celery are steamed on top of the roast during the last hour and a half . . . Roast and vegetables [make] a Sunday dinner for at least four people...
...After three days of no word I had about given him up, figuring that either he was being watched too closely to risk doing anything or that he felt I was being shadowed. The four of us on hand to cover the inauguration (A.P.'s Joe McAvoy, U.P.'s Thomas R. Curran, New York Times's Milton Bracker) knew that at least one of us was being carefully checked...
...Cover...
...last week the Indian army marched into Hyderabad. Tanks and armored cars spearheaded the marching columns over the hard, flat ground. Squadrons of the Indian air force provided air cover. The early stages of the invasion seemed to be going according to plan. There was little resistance either from the regular Hyderabad army or from Kasim Razvi and his Moslem fanatics. Instead, Hyderabad rushed a request to the United Nations Security Council to consider the dispute. For good measure, Hyderabad asked to submit the case to the International Court of Justice...