Word: codding
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Blond, bright-eyed Edward Collins, 12, lives in Rye, N.Y., spends his summers romping around his grandmother's Cape Cod cottage. One morning he and Cousin Grant Howes set out to explore the bayberry thickets, to find a new short cut to the beach. Instead they found something that set their pulses racing: a hidden, camouflaged tent filled with radio equipment...
...morning she chatted at length with some 200 Dutch sailors at the Home for Netherlands Seamen, decorated eleven of them and one Dutch nurse for heroism in action. After 27 hours in the gaudiest city of the world, the plain, sensible Queen of The Netherlands returned to her Cape Cod cottage in Lee, there to carry on her affairs of state and her shopping...
...think of you as one of us." Author Vorse was tickled silly. A hectic career as a pinko labor reporter and foreign correspondent has left her with little that is so permanently satisfying as her adopted home port, Provincetown-the fishing-&-tourist village at the end of Cape Cod...
...Hordes of officials and quasi-officials demanded X cards (entitling them to all the gas they wanted). A resident of Barnstable, Cape Cod purpled with rage when offered an A card, turned the card down and stalked...
...rain of shells. In the glow of the town's lights, which were not blacked out for 40 minutes, amateur lifesavers put out in rowboats to help the Navy patrols save 29 of the 48 sailors aboard. Not since the U-156 appeared off the coast of Cape Cod in World War I and smacked a few shells at Orleans had U.S. citizens seen a pigboat in action at such close range...