Word: covey
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General Ion Antonescu stood on a green hill overlooking Odessa, German binoculars fixed on a covey of his Rumanian Army planes that were blanketing the city with leaflets. Back in Bucharest, Nephew Mihai, now Acting Premier in the General's absence, waited anxiously . for news of Uncle Ion's first major assignment from his Nazi bosses...
...have the effect of impairing discipline. . . . Without expressing legal opinions, I will simply say that I think that comes very near the line of subversive activities against the United States-if not treason." With this terrible word in their beaks, the correspondents broke from the room like a flushed covey...
That was only the beginning. The Rapp-Coudert legislative committee investigating subversive activities in New York City public schools, which last fall flushed a covey of Reds at Brooklyn College (TIME, Dec. 16), decided to resume its hearings, summoned as its first witness a red-pompadoured City College teacher named Morris U. Schappes. Day before the hearing Mr. Schappes, fearing that he would not get a fair break, summoned reporters to a hotel room. Flanked by Teachers Union officers, he announced that he had been a Communist for five years but resigned from the party a year ago to write...
...knickknacks created by Wisconsin farmers and their wives. This year, even after the show had opened, rustic painters from the backwoods continued to arrive, toting rolls of canvas and bits of wood. One of them, Walter Thorpe of Baraboo, Wis., shyly unrolled two laboriously drawn pictures entitled Rattlesnake and Covey of Quail. Painter Curry was Impressed, hung them both immediately...
...Admiral Sir Charles M. Forbes, 59, Commander in Chief of the Home Fleet, directly under Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, top man in all the Navy, was substituted Vice Admiral John C. Tovey (rhymes with covey). This change precisely paralleled the recent substitutions of Sir Alan Brooke for Lord Gort in the Army, of Sir Charles Portal for Sir Cyril Newall in the R. A. F. Tough "Jack" Tovey, lean and electric, is the man who, commanding the destroyer Onslow at Jutland, engaged first the cruiser Wiesbaden, then the battleship Derfflinger, with only his torpedoes and four-inch guns; stopped fighting...