Word: caped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York and much of New England were merely sideswiped, left drenched and unhurt as the big wind fumed up the coast. Edna ultimately suffered the fate of many girls who can't make up their minds: she wound up with a split personality. Over Cape Cod she divided into halves. She made her final schizophrenic landfall over Maine and shrieked into Canada's Maritime Provinces and New foundland. Casualties: 18 dead; damages: an estimated $50 million. Edna's indisputable claim to fame, however, was in the fact that she scared more people than she injured. Fifty million...
...fiction, as in business, there is always room at the top. Just as South African writers are on the point of becoming a drug on the book market, along comes Cape Towner Uys Krige (44) with a collection of short stories as good as any current in English. They are stories about South Africa that do not. blessedly, derive from the headlines, and war tales that are moving without resorting to war-fiction language and cliches. One or two are complete failures. But the two best ones make it plain that Author Krige is more than promising: 1) The Dream...
...last May on a coastwise voyage to Havana. Off the Carolina coast, the Babun ran into a full gale. Her cargo shook loose, tearing away the deck supports and ripping her hull. Captain José Villa ordered the ship beached on the desolate Outer Banks, 25 miles above Cape Hatteras. That night Captain Villa and his crew were taken off on a Coast Guard lifeline, and the Babun was abandoned 300 yards offshore in the "Graveyard of the Atlantic...
...interested onlooker, Esveld Canipe, Buick dealer from Havelock, N.C., was more optimistic. Landlubber "Nip" Canipe, 38, had been fascinated with the sea ever since he moved to Havelock twelve years ago from western North Carolina. A tinkerer all his life, he had read a book about the wrecks off Cape Hatteras, and recently had tried a little amateur salvage work on an old World War I hulk up the coast from Havelock...
...winches. One morning the Babun's twin diesel motors began to purr, her winches started to wind, and the big pull was on. The next morning the Babun was floating free and riding out a vicious northeaster. It was the most successful salvage operation in the history of Cape Hatteras...