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Word: cantin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, heeding the call of the westering sun and the social season at Nassau, Freddy and Claude boarded their 104-ton auxiliary schooner Kangaroo, in Tangier and set sail for the Bahamas. A strong southwest gale was rising as the vessel rounded Cape Cantin off the Moroccan coast. The wind, heavy laden with desert sand, seized the yacht, drove it inshore and dashed it on the reefs. A surging wave flung a steward overboard to his death. Another knocked Claude's French maid Cecile to the deck. McEvoy's crewmen picked her up and lashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: Death of a Playboy | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

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