Word: covey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ladies Courageous comes in on a shattered wing and an unanswered prayer, noses over, and spills out a motley set of WAFS (see cut, p. 94) who later become WASPS. This whole covey of highly burnished cinemactresses looks more like Wam-pas cuties than like aeronauts. Judging by their actions, they cannot be trusted to pilot a perambulator, much less...
Bargain Day. In Americus, Ga., Leon D. Slappey, unarmed, flushed a covey of quail, pointed an imaginary gun, cried, "Bang, bang" - whereupon one of the birds flew into a fence and was killed...
...another occasion, the General was asked to loan his personal Catalina flying boat to help PT boats flush a covey of Jap ships. Geiger first refused ("Got it filled full of holes the last time you fellows flew around out there"), finally gave in. But there was a string attached. He insisted on going along as copilot...
...Monster Benefit the false Cantor impersonates the man he hates most in the world, the true Cantor. Meanwhile the true Cantor suffers as he has suffered for years: Indians tie him up, tomahawk him; maple syrup falls on his bare feet, dogs of all sizes lick it off; a covey of surgeons, to whom he tries to explain his predicament, go to work on him under the impression that he is insane...
...gentleman gave his word of honor that there would be no classes Labor Day. Another, that the School would march enmasse to greet a covey of pin-up girls in Boston to spur the war effort...