Word: coveys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more charisma than Rabin can provide. Meanwhile, he is being pushed by his opposition. Shimon Peres has indicated that if he decides he cannot go along with any government policy, he will bolt the government and run against Rabin, either independently or in the Labor Party. In addition, a covey of former generals, including former Intelligence Chief Aharon Yariv, is threatening to form a third force in Israeli politics-between the Labor government and its conservative opposition. Yariv, who resigned as Rabin's Information Minister last year because he felt underemployed and out of place in a government...
...bitter winter wind churned up the North Atlantic waves last week, the Icelandic gunboat Thor headed for a covey of British fishing trawlers that had moved into a forbidden conservation area. Guarding the trawlers, the British frigate Yarmouth kept close cover on Thor. While both vessels were running closely abreast at a brisk 16 knots, one of them-the accounts differ-veered toward the other. Warning blasts were sounded, engines were thrown full astern. It was too late. Yarmouth's bow sliced into Thor, ripping away the starboard wing of the gunboat's bridge...
...book two inches thick. The imperial couple will have plenty of help keeping to the schedule. They will be trailed by a retinue of 22, headed by Deputy Premier Takeo Fukuda and including the imperial household's grand steward, grand chamberlain, grand master of cerermonies and a covey of ladies in waiting...
...Fleetwood) and her ladies-in-waiting, Maria (Lynette Davies), Katherine (Janet Chappell) and Rosaline (Estelle Kohler). In no time the lordly abstainers are meditating only on their ladies' beauty and studying how to sneak love letters to them. Irony outraces irony, and the jollity is compounded by a covey of curates, schoolmasters and clowns. The R.S.C. invests the evening with lyricism, ardor and joy. In a superbly articulated performance (no surprise from one of the finest actors alive), Ian Richardson as Berowne sums up Shakespeare's conviction that all Utopian dreams run afoul of human needs, desires...
...news and doubtful that the price hikes were justified. As it happened, the Wage and Price Council had already taken it upon itself to fire off a telegram to U.S. Steel's New York headquarters asking the company to explain the increases. Three days later, a covey of U.S. Steel executives led by Board Chairman Edgar B. Speer arrived in Washington. Although U.S. Steel had raised prices by 23% earlier this year, the officials insisted that the new increases were needed to help the company "catch up" with recent run-ups in the cost of coal, iron...