Word: cod
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After 27 years and three wars, there wouldn't seem to have been any surprises left for Bob Hope, 64, in his Christmas tours for the troops. So they loaded him into a twin-engined C-2A "Cod" and fired him off the catapult of the carrier Ranger (acceleration from zero to 120 m.p.h. in three seconds), whomping him down on the nearby Coral Sea with the aid of an arresting hook. Hope came away laughing, but just barely. "I haven't felt a hook like that since vaudeville," he told 2,500 gleeful sailors. "I think...
...early 1930's, he served as the director of a committee appointed by the National Academy of Sciences to study the role of oceanographic research. His report led to the founding of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod...
Starfish, kelp, sacred cod, and a crab decorate the University's new organ, dedicated yesterday in a packed Memorial Church service...
...calls him "a figure from fairyland," and none who knew him can resist commenting on the sparkling, playful eyes lodged in his deep and at times overpoweringly sad face. Elizabeth Bishop remembers him looking "small and rather delicate but bright and dazzling, too" on the crest of a Cape Cod sand dune, writing in a notebook. Robert Fitzgerald finds his face "old-fashioned and rural and honorable and a little toothy." His wife says that he grew the immense beard to look like Chekhov, but to another observer it hides "the naked vulnerability of his countenance...
...which opened a year ago, has been a greater success than even the owners expected. The turning point, said Don Levy, co-owner with Alan Peterson, was the fantastic business they did at Christmas time. They were then able to open a combination Krackerjacks-Paraphernalia store in Hyannis, Cape Cod...