Word: caped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cape...
That was Dec. 3, off Nantucket. At noon of the next day a British destroyer located her off the tip of Cape Cod. The seas were running too high to take anyone off, but the Britisher took her in tow and headed for Halifax. But the adventures of the 3070 had only begun. Seaman Toivo Koskinen was on deck trying to rig a chafing gear when a wave swept him overboard. Another wave picked him up and swept him back. This time a shipmate grabbed him. In the blackness of night the towline snapped; the destroyer was lost to sight...
...more SBDs out and finished off a third destroyer. But the three remaining destroyers came on, so from time to time during the night eleven SBDs took off to drop flares and heckle them with night dives as they tried to land men and battle-stuff near Cape Esperance...
...July 1941, a U-boat took Leibbrandt to a point off desolate Namaqualand, South Africa. With $10,000 and radio equipment he rowed ashore in a rubber dinghy. For three days he walked across the hot plains, finally got a lift to Cape Town. Then he headed for the interior...
...When Dali was very young his mother continually asked him: "Sweetheart, what do you wish? Sweetheart, what do you want?" Among the things young Salvador wanted and got were a king's ermine cape, a gold scepter and a crown. Dressed in these, young Dali would stare at himself in the mirror. Says he: "Then I pushed my sexual parts back out of sight . . . so as to look as much as possible like a girl." At school Salvador was the only child to be brought "hot milk and cocoa . . . in a magnificent thermos bottle wrapped in a cloth embroidered...