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Word: cabo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Added Injury. In Pasadena, Thomas S. Cabo, pinned under his car when it rolled back on him, was taken to the hospital, where Policeman James E. Corrigan served him with one ticket for illegal parking, another for having failed to set his brakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 20, 1949 | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...bags were shipped on the S.S. Cabo de Bueno Esperanza. Why he did not accompany them was not revealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Big Roundup | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

...Cabo de Hornos the new passengers found friends-57 other refugees from the Alsina and the same Dakar camps. The Cabo de Hornos turned her white bows north and east again toward Rio and Hitler's Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH SEAS: Whited Sepulcher | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...Cabo de Buena Esperanza was no improvement over the Alsina. The Cabo ships are called "whited sepulchers" in South America, a reference to the smart white paint of their top sides and the filth, crowding, misery and disease inside their hulls. The whole ship stank, the food was nauseous, the ship's hospital used dirty newspapers for sheets. On the slow voyage across the Atlantic two more refugees died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH SEAS: Whited Sepulcher | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...guests at the Hotel de Inmigrantes would have to leave. By this time they all had Paraguayan visas, but they were not permitted even to walk across the city to the river boat for Paraguay. Instead they were bundled aboard another of the "whited sepulchers,'' the Cabo de Hornos (Cape Horn). Before the ship sailed one of the refugees killed himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH SEAS: Whited Sepulcher | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

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