Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Casablanca in Morocco. There they debarked and were put into a concentration camp. Some of them died. A baby was born. Some were released. Finally, at summer's end, a group of 40 was released in a body, put aboard the Spanish ship the Cabo de Buena Esperanza (Cape of Good Hope), bound once more for Brazil. Their visas had been guaranteed by the Brazilian consul at Casablanca...
...Hotel de Inmigrantes would have to leave. By this time they all had Paraguayan visas, but they were not permitted even to walk across the city to the river boat for Paraguay. Instead they were bundled aboard another of the "whited sepulchers,'' the Cabo de Hornos (Cape Horn). Before the ship sailed one of the refugees killed himself...
...Life. Astonished were the biologists upon finding a small green valley amid the icy wastes of Palmer Land (straight south of Cape Horn). Surrounded by high cliffs which concentrated the wan Antarctic sunlight, mosses, lichens and even grasses grow for one or two months each year, even though for the rest of the year they must endure 100-mile blizzards and - 60° cold. And there lives the largest land animal yet found on the Antarctic Continent: a kind of springtail, or primitive wingless insect, which is one-half inch long...
...cruiser hauled up alongside, and an officer shouted through a megaphone: "Where you from? Where you bound?" The answer, "Cape Town to New Orleans," came in broken English-third suspicion...
...boarding party got aboard, found that the crew of 45 was German, that the vessel was the 5,098-ton German motor-ship Odenwald, that she had cleared from Yokohama for German-held Bordeaux via Cape Horn with a cargo of baled raw rubber and U.S.-made tires and tubes. A dollar bill was found in one of the inners; bags of peanuts were also found. No arms were found except revolvers...