Word: capes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago, a young liberal running for Congress in a district which included the very poor, heavily blue collar city of New Bedford as well as several wealthy suburbs and Cape Cod, had a fund-raising party at a large seaside estate at Woods Hole. It was a beautiful people party at a beautiful people place: the men clad in bright red and yellow cotton pants with boat shoes or tassled loafers, the women in heels and tastefully chic dresses...
...they proudly boasted that they had made the grand tour round South America wholly on the largesse of gullible vice consuls like me. Their only expense was passage to the first foreign port, where they wangled enough money to get to the next one and so on round the cape and back home. Strandees who expect the Government to foot the whole bill are in effect trying to pass on their misfortunes to the long-suffering taxpayer...
Behind its dramatic structure, the English comedy of manners presupposes a class structure. Endemic to it is a social vocabulary in which the urbanely bent knee, the suavely kissed hand, the smartly swirled cape and assorted dandyish flourishes come as second nature. In such comedies, style is substance, and the witty gesture counts for as much as the witty word...
Scott told McCann that the doctors there had refused to admit his father, who had just broken his leg on Cape Cod. McCann said he would "make a few phone calls" and then call Scott back. Later that day, McCann called Scott to give him the name of the doctor who would admit his father to Mass General...
...wing of their plane. But Project Director Heinz Kasemir and his fellow scientists think that the risks are worth taking. Lightning suppression could be used to help prevent fatalities and forest fires, and might even benefit the space program. NASA could eventually employ suppression techniques at storm-prone Cape Kennedy, where lightning bolts have occasionally hit giant Saturn rockets on their pads and once, during a launch, knocked out the electrical system of Apollo 12, threatening the mission with disaster...