Word: covey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minister he wanted to be. As chaplain at a replacement depot in England during World War II, he talked to thousands of men. "I saw statistics turn into people," he says. "I knew then that I wanted to deal with people as individuals, and not just shoot into the covey...
...covey of psychiatrists clustered in Oklahoma City federal court one day last week to do a job of head-candling on Missouri's droop-eyed killer, Billy Cook. But their numbers only seemed to cloud the issue at hand-whether Billy, who killed six people in cold blood on a transcontinental murder spree (TIME, Jan. 22), was sane enough to stand trial for his crimes. Three said he was, four said he was not. Confronted with such guidance, Federal Judge Stephen Chandler decided next day that Cook was sane enough to plead guilty but not sane enough...
...TIME, Feb. 26 et seq.) prompted the New York Times to take a long (20 columns) look at "the impact of athletics on education." Times Reporter Charles Grutzner, working with twelve bird-dogging assistants, spent 3½ weeks covering 40 college campuses. By last week he had flushed a covey of shockers...
...relations to Tammany politics. But they could explore Tammany politicians and the men around Mayor O'Dwyer for traces of the underworld's power. While O'Dwyer himself flew into-town from the embassy in Mexico to testify, the committee hus tled a whole covey of O'Dwyer's political friends and underlings onstage...
...York, in Washington, in San Juan, Government agents began a high-pressure investigation of the weird assassination plot. Government agents roused by teletype combed Manhattan's Spanish Harlem; they picked up a covey of Puerto Rican Nationalists, arrested the wives of the two gunmen. Both women were dry-eyed and defiant. Cried Rosa Collazo to her three daughters: "Hold up your heads. Don't be ashamed...