Word: casco
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Professor Albion's interest is the sea. He was born in Malden but managed to grow up on Maine's Casco Bay; by World War I his seafaring ancestry was showing its effect, and Albion joined the Naval Reserve. After what he calls a "delightful" series of training eruises, Albion began to feel that he would like a little combat action, so he jumped leagues and promoted himself a commission as an infantry licutenant...
...boat advance guard ("This is Ching Lee. Get out of the way; I'm coming through," he radioed) to do battle with the Jap fleet (score: one enemy battleship and three cruisers sunk); of a heart attack; aboard a small boat carrying him to his flagship Wyoming; in Casco Bay, Me., where he was engaged in a special top-secret assignment...
...come in the night, one of those chowder-thick, chill wet shrouds from the sea that Maine men,, call "dungeon fogs." Casco Bay sailors stayed indoors. As Paul Thurston, president of the Rumford Falls Trust Co., Rumford, Me., walked into his office he had noticed empty desks, typewriters silent that should have been clicking. His secretary, Leila Sanders, was not in her place. Albert Melanson, Bessie Strople, Elizabeth Howard had not appeared for work, had sent no word...
Boats pushed out into the dungeon fog, blew horns, waited in vain for Skipper Paul's reply. From Monhegan Island and all Casco Bay the searchers sent the same answer: no trace. A throng of weeping kinfolk, scared children gathered at Harpswell wharf. Hours later, a message came from Westpoint that the Don had put in there at 11 a.m. to buy lobsters, then left for Monhegan...