Word: falmouth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...national drag-racing championship, liquor stores were closed on Sunday by state law, but 150 hot-rodders surged through the streets yelling "We want booze." More than 75 state police and sheriff's deputies were called up to control the mob. In the Cape Cod resort towns of Falmouth and Hyannis, 240 summering students were arrested for drunkenness, disorderly conduct and traffic violations...
...Falmouth, Mass., Playhouse: Father of the Bride, with William Bendix...
...Falmouth, Mass., Playhouse: sprightly Celeste Holm in Invitation to a March...
...tiny topsail schooner Pickle leaked and bucked her way past Spanish Finisterre, through Biscay's Bay, past French Finistere, and English Land's End, to Falmouth. The "telegraph" (semaphore) to London was unfinished. So Pickle's skipper, Lieut. John Richards Lapenotiere, jounced for 37 hours in a post chaise to Whitehall. It was 16 days after the fleet's guns fell silent that Lapenotiere rode through Admiralty Arch, strode into the secretary's office and announced baldly: "Sir, we have gained a great victory, but we have lost Lord Nelson...
...thunder of those seaborne demolition charges rings distant in the ear; the armada that sailed from Falmouth is already as quaint and archaic as the fleet that sailed with Drake. For in a world of ballistic missiles, nuclear warheads and intricate, intercontinental guidance systems that are not bothered by such hazards as the River Loire mud flats, the glory of the Greatest Raid seems strangely out of date. Its moving and carefully compiled record belongs on history's bookshelves, a reminder of a non-atomic world when everyone was sure that wars could still...