Word: caped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cape Cod Standard-Times...
From every U.S. county, from Cape Cod's cranberry bogs to California's orange groves, the Agriculture Department's busy farm agents mailed in their annual reports. They told a story of great fertility, great abundance. The land was still good. For all the mistakes unthinking men had visited on it, it was still good land, the best possession of a great nation. The reports told...
...Japanese did not attack a single Netherlands outpost. But the Dutch knew there was no permanency to this, and they went straight to work. Part of the Dutch Air Force joined the British in Malaya. Dutch submarines sank four Japanese transports as they rushed 4,000 reinforcing troops to Cape Patani; next day the Dutch caught a tanker and a freighter. Just as they had been tough in negotiation, so now the Dutch of the Indies were proving determined in action...
Their itinerary lay down a thousand miles of Lower California coast, around Cape San Lucas and up into the gulf of treacherous repute. They collected fish, snails, crabs, sea worms, sea cucumbers, sea cradles, sea urchins, sea hares, starfish, octopi, mussels, anemones, shrimps, limpets, conches, sponges, hundreds of other creatures with fancy Latin names. Although they were not looking for rarities, about 10% of their 550 species proved to be new. They were stung by urchins, morays, anemones, stingrays and stinging worms. Their hands, cut by barnacles, became first a welter of sores and then horny-callused. They caught...
Steinbeck bathed, too, in a heady stream of life-force. At Cape San Lucas he observed that the rocks were "ferocious with life....Perhaps the force of the great surf which beats on this shore has much to do with the tenacity of the animals here. It is noteworthy that the animals, rather than deserting such beaten shores for the safe cove and protected pools, simply increase their toughness and fight back at the sea with a kind of joyful survival. This ferocious survival quotient excites us and makes us feel good, and from the crawling, fighting, resisting qualities...