Word: caped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Afterthought. In Plymouth, Mass., someone inserted a classified ad in the Guide to Cape Cod offering to swap a twin baby carriage for twin beds...
...crossed Massachusetts Avenue. On the corner of Plympton Street, two fellows in crew cuts and seersucker jackets had just thrown their weekend bags into their Ford and were starting the engine. Suddenly Vag remembered it was Friday, and he was taking the two o'clock out to the Cape. He quickened his pace. A fast lunch of chicken salad and iced coffee in Lowell House, and he would be off. Crossing Bow Street he bumped into a pretty girl, rather well-rounded at the edges. He picked up her pocketbook, handed it to her, and hesitating a moment to think...
With his fierce handlebar mustache, his broad-brimmed hat and black cape, Alfredo Palacios, the "grand old man" of Argentina's Socialist Party, resembles a character out of an 1890 melodrama. Like those 1890 heroes, he emphasizes honor. And in a long political life filled with battles for university reform, rights for women, legalized divorce, many are the duels he has fought to defend...
...years Raymond Cameron, 39, had dug coal in Cape Breton's pits. Last February, along with 13,000 other Maritime miners, he went on strike for more pay. Out of the 99-day strike, the miners got a basic $1-a-day pay boost, bringing the day's average to $12. But Miner Cameron was not satisfied with working conditions...
...Cape Breton we just dig a hole in the coal face, put in the powder, and the coal is blown out for us. All we have to do is shovel it. Out there you have to use a jackhammer to pry the coal off the face, and even after that you have to dig the rocks out. That kind of mining isn't easy...