Word: caped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they headed for the Arawe peninsula, an isle-screened knob on New Britain's coast between Cape Gloucester and Gasmata. There they dropped 356 tons of explosive-a Southwest Pacific record. That night the invasion fleet moved...
...long swells of the South Atlantic break angrily against lonely Tristan da Cunha. In the volcanic rock of this island group, halfway between Cape Town and Montevideo, they have scoured deep, dark caverns...
Four years after Repetto found the maiden, a ship touched at Tristan, took back photographs to Cape Town. There a mechanic of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm identified it as the figurehead of the Admiral Karpfanger, which had once been laid up in his Liverpool shipyard...
...bark of 2,853 tons, put out from Port Germein,'South Australia, on Feb. 8, 1938. Aboard were 44 cadets and 16 officers and men of the Hamburg-America Line. Five weeks later she radioed her position from somewhere south of New Zealand and said she would round Cape Horn. That was the last ever heard of her until the lily maiden was found...
...changed little: awake at 7:30; a quick but thorough go at the Washington and New York papers (he reads Columnists Clapper and Lippmann regularly); breakfast of scrambled eggs, bacon, toast and milk; then, propped in bed in his year-round lightweight, solid-color pajamas, with a blue cape around his shoulders, a chat with his secretaries on the day's schedule. Despite their best efforts and the President's recurring resolutions to cut down, his daily list of callers always seems to grow longer. Franklin Roosevelt likes people and loves an audience; Secretary "Pa" Watson still faces...