Word: caped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spawned in the warm waters off the west coast of Africa, David was a Cape Verde hurricane, the most lethal of late summer storms and one of the strongest of this century. In its 3,000-mile trek across the Atlantic, it grew in size and intensity until it measured some 300 miles across, with an eye 30 miles wide. It entered the Caribbean almost surreptitiously, barely touching the island of Barbados...
...Democratic Senator Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts was pleasantly surprised by the turnout of some 250 people in a hot, stuffy school auditorium in Harwich, on Cape Cod. He caught not a single question about foreign affairs or even about next year's presidential election-despite the fact that Ted Kennedy's Hyannis Port home is only twelve miles away and Tsongas has said that he might run as a stand-in for Kennedy in the Massachusetts Democratic primary. The dominant topics, instead, were inflation and energy. "What specific steps do the President and Congress plan to take about...
Want some advice? Get as far away from Cambridge as possible. Go to Walden Pond, Dorchester, Cape Cod, go to Worcester for chrissakes, but steer clear of this...
...many experts believe, any attempt to contain erosion is futile. After spending millions of dollars on trying to save beaches along Cape Hatteras and elsewhere, the National Park Service decided that in most cases it was better to leave nature alone. But Miami Beach's leaders felt that the survival of the resort was at stake. With the support of the Florida congressional delegation, the Corps of Engineers began what is the largest beach restoration ever attempted. When the corps completes the project in 1981, it will have laid down 10.5 miles of new beach (1.2 miles in neighboring...
Conquering cinemaspace is getting to be old hat for Christopher Reeve. Hanging his cape in the telephone booth temporarily between Superman and the upcoming Superman II, Reeve does it again as an ordinary playwright in a romantic saga called Somewhere in Time...