Word: cod
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Massachusetts' florid-faced, iron-grey Charles L Gifford, 72, a Representative from Cape Cod for 22 years, told the House just when a Congressman can be fearless: "It seems Wendell Phillips once said that when a statesman, socalled, arrives at 70 and when he no longer has any hope of being President, you can get the truth...
...where the children waited on tables, the parents cooked, and the daily cash intake disguised their poverty. Counting the money on Sunday night, Louise planned to enlarge the restaurant to support the greenhouse. The greenhouse failed, with liabilities of $72,000. The Piersons bought a soda fountain on Cape Cod, built it into a nightclub. One Saturday night at one minute past 12, it was raided...
...after a winter in captivity. For 40 years they had been fed a diet which included Norwegian shrimp. The war forced substitution of New Orleans shrimp. This spring the long-stemmed birds emerged from winter quarters ruddier than ever. Their complete diet: a mixture of chopped green 'peppers, cod liver oil, fresh New Orleans shrimp, grated raw carrots, dried Mexican flies, dog biscuit, rice and brewer's yeast...
...straight line to a fixed point on the inside of the 13th rib determined by measuring off ten inches in a straight line from the center of the protruding edge of the 13th thoracic vertebra, but in making the cut no more than one (i) inch of cod or udder fat shall be left on the flank side of the loin. The 10-inch measurement shall be made from the center of the protruding edge of the 13th thoracic vertebra and not from the hollow of the chine bone where the 13th rib joins the 13th thoracic vertebra." Said Nebraska...
That was Dec. 3, off Nantucket. At noon of the next day a British destroyer located her off the tip of Cape Cod. The seas were running too high to take anyone off, but the Britisher took her in tow and headed for Halifax. But the adventures of the 3070 had only begun. Seaman Toivo Koskinen was on deck trying to rig a chafing gear when a wave swept him overboard. Another wave picked him up and swept him back. This time a shipmate grabbed him. In the blackness of night the towline snapped; the destroyer was lost to sight...