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Cold facts on Spain's horrors are increasingly hard to get past its censors but in Paris last week arrived United Press's seasoned Madrid correspondent Lester Ziffren, previously an ace coverer of Latin American civil wars.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is covering sergeant of my company, and the smartest coverer we have, too.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas

But, my dear lady, would you prefer the latter; a coverer of canvases, a mere portrayer of action instead of a doer?

From Blake's Burden by Bindloss, Harold

Lefty watched Bemis, the long-legged ground coverer, working away toward the plate, and drove him back.

From Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager by Standish, Burt L.

The trouble is that the coverer is like Samson who perished in the wreck of what he had destroyed; if he gets rid of a thing effectually he gets rid of himself too.

From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Butler, Samuel