Word: covey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About 100 miles out they passed a great covey of Jap planes which were heading for the Hornet's task force. Later they found the Jap ships-but to get to them they had to fly 75 miles with Zeros buzzing around their heads...
...solution to the transportation problem was proposed last week by two top-flight U.S. engineers (Vladimir Yourkevitch, designer of the Normandie, and Frederick B. Woodworth, Smith-Meeker Engineering Co.'s radio chief): a covey of small (2,000-ton) cigar-shaped concrete ships, lying low in the water with about a foot of freeboard. The ships are to be without superstructure, without crews, self-powered by diesel engines, controlled by radio from a single armed mother ship (corvette or destroyer). Advantages: the ships would be tricky targets, almost invisible to a submarine or from any distance at sea; loss...
...Like a covey of pigeons fluttering into an alley, a squadron of U.S. light bombers swooped down through the North African mountains. The field on which it lighted was bare of anything that would identify it as an airdrome. But trucks began to arrive with equipment. Men swarmed over the plateau. Within 24 hours of their landing, the bombers were off on their first mission...
...Feathered Friends. Over Manhattan a chicken hawk peeled off, dived into the Bowery, strafed a stooping street cleaner from the rear. In Kansas City, Mrs. Roy Jordan stepped outside and transferred to her refrigerator a covey of 15 quail who had broken their necks trying to fly through the closed kitchen window. In Hollywood, Actress Jeff Donnell introduced the seeing-eye owl-a pressagent's idea of an efficient dimout guide for people in no particular hurry...
...Syria, says Mannheim Kalaf, men take out a trained hajjel cock and stake it near a hunting blind. The bird will strut around challenging every hajjel within hearing distance. Soon a covey comes up, the leader ready for battle. Then the hunter blazes away at the covey with both barrels, picks up the dead birds and goes home. "They never wait to shoot again because the hajjel is smart-you can't fool him twice...