Word: covey
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...covey of twinjet, all-weather Flashlight fighter bombers with striking clear-plastic needle noses, roughly the equivalent...
...fear that the U.N. would soon move in with force on the squabbling provincial bosses and take away their armies. With one voice, the leaders-Congolese President Joseph Kasavubu and Premier Joseph Ileo, Kasai Province's Albert Kalonji, Katanga Province's Moise Tshombe, and a covey of others-sent blunt warning to the U.N. to refrain from force and take no action until the Congo's black rulers could come up with a solution of their own. Then, to everyone's astonishment, the Congolese did just that...
Coach Edo Marion's most consistently strong performers have been on the sabre squad. John Piel, Lajos Meder, and Jamie Covey will start tomorrow afternoon in sabre...
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...