Word: capes
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...reason for the taxonomic purge is that birds tend on occasion to be indiscreet in their mating habits. The Cape Sable sparrow and the dusky seaside sparrow, for example, have interbred; Harlan's hawks have mated with red-tailed hawks. These unions have produced hybrids that do not fit the A.O.U.'s official definition of a distinct species. As a result, the A.O.U. has punished the offending species by dropping them from birddom's social register...
...packed a flashy cape, white duck suit and wide-brimmed hat and sailed for Europe, never to return. In France Whistler began groping toward an impressionistic style that eventually matured in a series of nightscapes he called "Nocturnes." It was just such a painting that got Whistler into trouble with British Critic John Ruskin in 1875. "I have seen, and heard, much of the cockney impudence before now," Ruskin told a gallery director, "but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask 200 guineas for slinging a pot of paint in the public's face." At a celebrated libel trial...
With impeachment on his calendar, O'Neill wonders how long it will be before he gets to spend time with his family at their vacation house on Cape Cod. But he usually makes it back to Cambridge on weekends, and the voters come past to ask for favors as they always have. As always, Tip tries to comply. As a state legislator during the Depression, he often got as many as 250 men snow-shoveling jobs at $3 or $4 a day; as a Congressman, he was able to find 3,000 youngsters Christmas jobs at the Boston post...
...canal. Even so, a third of the world's tanker tonnage can still fit through the Big Ditch, and for those vessels the sailing time between Persian Gulf ports and Western Europe could be cut to about 14 days from the present 30 days around the Cape of Good Hope. In addition, traders as far away as India and Pakistan would reap immediate shipping benefits from the canal's unblocking...
...years Fox, a nonsectarian theist, held the prestigious post of organist at Manhattan's Riverside Church. In those days, his most conspicuous eccentricity was a fondness for walking the streets in a toreador's black cape-that and a rapidly emerging, unorthodox approach to Bach. "The word toccata means to touch, "he asserts, lapsing into his habit of speaking in italics. "My Bach is a redblooded, gutsy he-man Bach. His mind is universal; his heart is overwhelming, and the spirit that rides over the entire creativity of this enormous man is transcendental...