Word: coveys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy made end on the first team in his senior year and earned his letter. With a covey of Kennedys cheering in the stands, he caught a touchdown pass against Yale that year for Harvard's only score in a 21-7 loss. There was a significant sequel to Teddy's efforts to improve his football skills. At Harvard, Teddy fumed at the fact that Clasby could outrun him. "Dick," he said, "sometime in the next ten years I'll bet I beat you in a race." Last month, when Clasby, now a lumber broker...
...broad-winged aircraft looked as if it had been flattened against the white cliffs of Dover. The propeller sprouted out of its tail like a designer's afterthought. In the cabin, the pilot rode a first cousin to a bicycle, and he was pedaling furiously. A covey of anxious friends checked his progress...
...another of Detroit's Big Three. Last week, after six months of quiet negotiation, Borgward was finally sold for $14 million-but not to Detroit. The buyer turned out to be Impulsora Mexicana Automotriz, a consortium recently formed by top Spanish Truckmaker Eduardo Barreiros Rodriguez and a covey of Latin American entrepreneurs, including Bolivian Tin King Antenor Patino and Millionaire Mexico City Lawyer Ernesto Santos Galindo...
...teatime, the black family limousine rolled up to the White House portal, and a tanned Mamie Eisenhower, in a mottled print dress, alighted for her first homecoming in a year and a day. "Hello, Bruce," said the former First Lady to the doorman. She hailed a covey of capital newspaperwomen, then shook hands with her hostess Jackie, ashimmer in a green shantung sheath. After a peek at the refurbished Red Room, Mamie sat down in the Oval Room over raspberry tarts and tea with seven other senior leaguers working on a $30 million drive for the National Culture Center, hopefully...
...then, only natural that when Twain in the summer of 1876 got the idea for a story in the manner of an Elizabethan Pepys, in which the conversation of Sir Walter Raleigh, Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont and a covey of ladies including the Queen was to be recorded in all the coarseness and candor that Twain liked to believe was typical of aristocratic talk of the period, he should write it out in a letter to Twichell. The good pastor, predictably, laughed his head off. After keeping the letter in his pocket for four years so that he could refer...