Word: covey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your writer must have searched his soul and thesaurus long and hard before referring to Lyricist Alan Lerner's succession of therapists as a "pride of analysts." Pride of lions, yes; brace of quail, covey of partridges, indeed; but surely there can be no exact usage other than to refer to a group of my esteemed colleagues as a couch or complex of analysts. The term clutch has been proposed, but is clear evidence of resistance...
...next morning Nikita was at Orly Airport, on the same red carpet from which Eisenhower had departed three hours before. Khrushchev convulsed a covey of Soviet aides as he warned Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, about to take off for Manhattan to bring the U-2 spy charges before the United Nations. "Be careful of those imperialists," chortled Nikita. "Be careful to cover your back. Don't expose your back to them...
BRITISH Cartoonist Ronald Searle, who drew this week's summit cover (his first for TIME), is recognized as one of the best of Great Britain's talented covey of cartoonists. Searle won a national reputation before he was 30 for his madcap cartoons of "St. Trinian's Girls' School," whose bloomered, black-stockinged, altogether fiendish young ladies roasted oxen in their rooms, made dissenters walk the plank, fired machine guns down the halls ("Girls! Girls! A little less noise please"). He spread his humor through weekly features for Punch and London's News Chronicle, including...