Word: covey
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...seems, somebody wandering in a deep forest comes across a bearded old hermit who asks whether Prohibition was ever repealed or whether William Jennings Bryan ever got elected President of the U.S. Last week the House Un-American Activities Committee, investigating Communist infiltration in the entertainment industry, flushed a covey of even odder birds. They were hermitically behind the times, but they had been living in high-rent Manhattan apartments rather than wilderness caves. There was not a single white beard or coonskin cap among them: they were well-dressed, prosperous and seemingly very up to date. Chief specimens...
Talking over the dispute between France and Tunis with a covey of senior Tunisian government officials one day last week, U.S. Ambassador Robert Murphy found that the conversation had turned to the Algerian war. Gently Murphy suggested that the conference get back to the subject it was supposed to be discussing: Tunisian demands for the evacuation of all French military bases in Tunisia...
...along the coast of the Gulf of Siam, Pibul and his aide boarded a navy LCM manned by his personal guards. Three days later Pibul and a skeleton personal staff disembarked some 200 miles away at the Cambodian seaside resort of Kep. On hand to meet him was a covey of Cambodian officials to tell him he was welcome if he agreed to indulge in no politicking. Pibul assented, was driven off to the capital of Pnompenh in a cream-and-green Buick thoughtfully provided by his hosts...
...October. Speaking last week before a meeting of the International Scientific Radio Union, which drew delegates from 23 nations to the University of Colorado in Boulder, the Navy's Dr. John P. Hagen, civilian scientist, gave the most complete report yet on U.S. plans to launch a covey of man-made moons in the International Geophysical Year (June 30, 1957 through...
Church Ablaze. Suddenly the solemn procession of six red-robed bishops and more than 100 bearded priests was interrupted by a burst of gunfire from the café. In a moment the entire village square was ablaze with gunfire. Inside the church a covey of his kinsmen surrounded Father Dweihi, and some of them took bullets aimed at him. When at last a detachment of troops arrived from Zghorta, ten Dweihis, two Franjiehs and two Moawads lay dead. Four other innocent villagers died as well, and the wounded totaled about...