Word: cod
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Almost all of the 579 animals that live on the Durrell preserve are in danger of extinction and are treated accordingly. A recently arrived spider monkey that refused to eat ("Apes are the hypochondriacs of the animal world") was finally coaxed into feasting on smoked cod roe. A sulking capybara, the world's largest rodent, was found to be partial to spaghetti. "An animal likes variety just as we do," says Durrell, a skilled cook. "If you give it a tomato day after day, it goes mad. It may want a bloody watermelon for a change...
Clearing his schedule of all other work, he rose as early as 4 a.m. at his brick, Cape Cod-style home in Northwest Washington, then drove to his office in the U.S. Court House to study law books and constitutional interpretations most of the day. He painstakingly revised his opinion several times, and not until noon of the day the opinion was to be delivered did he finally finish. Three hours later, his secretary handed out mimeographed copies to reporters in his wood-paneled chambers. Wearing a dark coat and gray slacks, Sirica stood by, shaking hands, extending polite greetings...
John Kennedy was cruising in Cape Cod waters when the Berlin Wall went up. He hurried home and did nothing. One wonders what might have happened had he been in Washington, his fingers on all the sensitive spots, his generals and diplomats around him. Courage tends to mount in such settings...
...mother Ethel, along with his uncle, Senator Edward Kennedy, had flown to Nantucket by charter plane from the family compound in Hyannis Port. After the three-hour trial, the Senator walked up to the prosecutor and said: "You have been very fair." Meanwhile, in the Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Pamela Kelly, 18, who was critically injured in the car driven by Joe, showed some signs of partial recovery from her waist-down paralysis...
...police reported finding no evidence that alcohol or drugs were involved. They cited Kennedy for negligent driving and ordered him to appear at a court hearing this week. For Pamela Kelly, however, the agony was just beginning. The Coast Guard flew her to Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, where three specialists summoned by the Kennedy family tried for three hours to repair the damage. By the end of the week she began to have some feeling in one of her legs, an encouraging sign. But doctors said it would be several weeks before they would know whether she could ever...