Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anybody who sits on Cape Gris Nez is seven minutes by air and an hour and a half by sea from England, and there are a lot of Germans still sitting around Cape Gris Nez. . . . We must keep enough here to make sure that the enemy cannot destroy or seriously damage what is, after all, the powerhouse of world resistance to the German bid for world domination...
...Shakespearian scholar, toughest and most beloved of professors, who for 40 years gave English 2 died on July 23 of a heart ailment at his summer home on Cape...
...biography will be written of ginger-haired, dynamitish Admiral Sir John Cronyn Tovey, 55, now Commander in Chief of Britain's Home Fleet. Footnote material to such a work was orally contributed by one of his former shipmates who arrived last week in Manhattan from Suez (via the Cape of Good Hope) aboard the Empress of Asia with several hundred other British veterans of battles in the Mediterranean and campaigns along its shores. Said Sir John's former shipmate (insisting naturally that he be not quoted by name...
Harmonious, too, were the denials of U.S., Brazilian and Portuguese officials that as a birthday present Portugal had given Brazil a first lien on the Azores, the Cape Verde and possibly other Portuguese islands in the Atlantic. A score of years ago there was actually a popular movement in Portugal to join Brazil, her onetime colony which has far outgrown her. To many statesmen it now seems at least as logical that Brazil should protect Portugal's possessions as that the U.S. should protect Britain's. And if Brazil is not strong enough to do so alone, then...
...failed. His luggage: a Gladstone bag, a wicker hamper, a cardboard box, two sacks holding miscellaneous belongings. In his jeans: a check for $183, most of it his earnings at 15? a day as clerk in the Keeper's office. Immediate prospect: stewardship of 25 cows on a Cape Cod farm. The rules: don't change jobs without permission; keep regular hours; stay away from firearms, liquor, convicts, Wall Street...