Word: capes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aged sisters, was written in 1935 when she was 21 (it was revised and published 15 years later). Already certain she would be a writer, she fashioned the story by imagining her sister and herself 30 years hence. The dolorous silence that supposedly followed her rejection by Publisher Jonathan Cape in 1963 never occurred. She kept on writing, and with British pertinacity, sent manuscripts to more than 20 publishers under a variety of male and female pseudonyms...
Actually, Nagy not only took a whale-watching cruise off Cape Cod, he also completed a book of literary criticism on the work of Pindar, an archaic Greek lyric poet...
...across the Atlantic five years ago in his great silver Double Eagle II; early this summer he and Partner Don Ida crashed and died in Bavaria during a balloon race. In 1978 a New Zealander named Naomi James, 34, became the first woman to circumnavigate the world alone via Cape Horn, only a brief time after learning sailing so that she could share an interest with her yachtsman husband Rob. She retired from competitive sailing to raise a family, and last March her first child, a daughter, was born. Eleven days earlier, Rob had drowned in a yachting accident...
...lift-off will mark the U.S.'s first nocturnal launch of a manned spacecraft since Apollo 17 roared away in a blaze of fire and smoke shortly after midnight on Dec. 7, 1972. The glow was seen by residents of the Great Smoky Mountains, 500 miles away from Cape Canaveral. The spectacle of the ST58 launch should be even more brilliant: the shuttle's engines and twin solid-fuel rocket boosters will generate a temperature of 6,000° F, double that produced by the Apollo...
...hulk, leaking oil at a rate of about one ton an hour, posed a danger to the dozens of ships that round the cape every day. In a daring maneuver, a private helicopter, with air force planes monitoring the situation, lowered two divers onto the wreck to attach a towline to the tanker's bow. A powerful tugboat then began to tow the wreckage 100 miles out to sea, where it will be sunk in some 6,000 feet of water...