Word: covey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Immediately Bok is faced with a covey of unresolved debates left over from the Pusey era. Foremost among the issues he must deal with are merger, curriculum reform, responsibility to the community, the sustenance of numerous experimental programs, and the question of equal admissions for women and increased Faculty representation...
What do TV Host David Susskind, Commentary Magazine Editor Norman Podhoretz, Actor Eli Wallach, Critic Alfred Kazin, Cartoonist Jules Feiffer, and a covey of New York's richest lawyers and brokers have in common? For one thing, they all spend as much as $3,000 a year to send their children to Manhattan's private Dalton School. For another, they have lately turned their intellectual ferocity to intramural school brawling...
...Basilica of Glory," austere on the outside but stuffed with plaster piety inside: battalions of pink and blue angels, scores of polychromed saints, gauze curtains and blue and beige carpets. The make-believe Pope has only a modest Curia -ten "cardinals" and "bishops" and a covey of giggling "nuns": most of the followers are or have been Roman Catholic priests and nuns...
...history of the draft didn't collapse under the pressure of the pro ranks. To be sure, Calvin Hill was Rookie of the Year in 1969. But usually, there is a conspicuous paucity of Ivy League players chosen in the draft. This year was no different: Blackman's covey of Dartmouth seniors was passed by with one exception-cornerback Willie Bogan, who was selected by Baltimore in the eighth round. This is the same group which dominated the All-Ivy team with seven first team selections...
Four very important defensive starters- Farneti, Fenton, Frisbie and Doyle- are graduating, but with five starters returning and a covey of more than adequate replacements awaiting the opportunity to move up, the new coach will find most of his troubles on offense...