Word: covings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...oversize job. During business hours, he regularly keeps admirals with high-priority business stacked waiting outside his plush-lined office, while he leisurely hashes over old times with political cronies. An expert fence mender, Whitehair recently had the Navy postpone a minor ship-recommissioning ceremony, at Green Cove Springs, Fla., until he could get down there last week to harangue the home folks...
...raced up a gangplank at Wolfe's Cove one grey, cold morning last week seemed like vacation-bound tourists. Except for a handful of tearful relatives, the pier was a scene of gay, bustling activity as the first contingent of the 27th Infantry Brigade shoved off to join the NATO armies in Germany...
...word went to U.S. ambassadors at the United Nations and in Moscow: sound out the Russians. At the U.N., the sounding produced only hollow noises. Russia's Jacob Malik, who had floated the first hint of peace, holed up in his Glen Cove mansion, claiming illness. One night he appeared as host at a U.N. dinner, tuxedoed and healthy-looking-but he dodged all questions about a ceasefire...
...disappearance of their main scapegoat, under indictment for "crimes against the state," threw the congressional committee into a boiling rage. For three days, every spare cop was flung into the chase, and government patrol craft nosed into every cove and inlet along the river coast. But their quarry got away. At week's end, Gainza Paz turned up safe at his mother's estate, 150 miles west of Montevideo...
...nine unhurried Chinese Communists led by a general named Wu Hsiu-chuan. Impatient U.N. delegates mulled over reports that the Chinese would reach New York by Nov. 24, speculated curiously about where the Chinese would eat and sleep. (One popular guess: in the Russians' rented mansion at Glen Cove...