Word: coveys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thirty-five men from Pennypacker Hall attacked a covey of defiant Whitman, Hall girls yesterday in a half-hour long water-balloon battle...
...history is only the background for O'Casey's warm, humorous, pathetic characters. Nora and Jack Clitheroe share a Dublin tenement apartment with Peter Flynn, Nora's uncle, and Covey, Jack's cousin. Covey, an international socialist, mocks old Peter, a die-hard Irish nationalist, while Nora attempts to pacify them both. But she cannot control her husband's allegiance to the Citizen Army. He leaves her and dies in the battle...
...previous productions, this company deserves the highest praise. Jane Alexander as Nora is first warm with love and later mad with grief. Terrence Currier's Covey is appropriately sharp and witty, while Robert Gaus's Peter stumbles and mumbles about with humor and sympathy. The rest of the players, as well as director Michael Murray, rate equally loud applause...
...Olympics were bad enough. A Japanese won a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling and a Dutchman beat the Japanese in judo. Now nothing seems to be sacred. In Melbourne, Australia, last week, the U.S. lost the first "World Series" of ladies' softball. And to a covey of Aussie shielahs who still think the name of the game is "rounders...
...hallmark of to morrow's interceptor. But even more to the point, the A-11's role as a fighter plane was obvious to those who inspected it on the ground. There were bomb-bay doors in the craft's belly that hid a covey of four-vaned air-to-air AIM (Air Intercept Missile) missiles...