Word: covey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...STEPHEN COVEY Tarpon Springs...
...highest opinion of Humphrey's abilities, turned instinctively to him for counsel when Secretary of State Dulles lay ill during the Suez crisis. In February, even after Humphrey had flushed out the covey of budget cutters, the President went quail hunting on Humphrey's Georgia plantation. Because Humphrey is Ike's friend and a top Cabinet figure, his hair-curling statements called for an extra-strong presidential rebuke if the U.S. was to believe that it was being taxed for an honest-weight budget. Instead, Ike decided to smooth things over, seemed almost to be agreeing with...
...siege of heavy rain and a scent-bedeviling east wind, many dogs got confused, but one liver-and-white pointer bitch felt right at home on Maytag's acres. Bouncing eagerly through the sedge grass. Just Rite Roz flushed her first covey 15 minutes after her handler, Druggist Bill Swift of Selma, Ala., let her go. Swift's whistled commands moved Roz through the course as though she were on a long leash-a series of short blasts sent her roaming, a long blast brought her back. Coolly, she ignored the occasional roar of a shotgun fired...
Stepping off the plane at Moscow into the organized cheers that pass for Soviet popular enthusiasm, the Kremlin's traveling twosome kissed ailing old President Kliment Voroshilov, accepted flowers from a covey of little girls, and acclaimed the success of their mission to Britain. But it was soon obvious that their most unforgettable moment was the roughing they got at the ill-starred Labor Party dinner (TIME, May 7). Said Premier Nikolai Bulganin: "However strange it may be, the only organization which tried by its conduct to spoil the atmosphere of our visit was the organization of the Laborites...
Speaking to a rapt covey of newshens, Pollster George Gallup, mindful of the time when his prophecies all but installed Thomas E. Dewey in the White House, made it clear that he will crawl out on no limb this election year. Announced hypercautious Dr. Gallup: "As I look into this crystal ball, I see a light flashing and hear a small voice saying, 'Remember 1948.' It will be my intention in this campaign simply to use the magic words, 'Let others make the predictions...