Word: nantucketers
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...breakthroughs or for flank attacks from the sea, are a host of additional AC&W units, including lines of offshore picket ships, Air Force RC-121 Super Constellations, Navy ZPG-2W blimps and, in the Atlantic off Cape Cod, a Texas Tower (two others are under construction, off Nantucket and New Jersey...
...into trunks. The car reached the spot where the Rio Quaccerique, loaded with silt from surrounding hills, whirls through a narrow gorge and widens to a rock-filled pool 100 ft. wide and 40 ft. deep. The ambassador was slightly worried; his best skin-diving equipment was still in Nantucket, where he had spent the summer. But he pulled on an ill-fitting tank of compressed air, a face mask with a broken strap, and stepped into the water. The mask leaked, and the water was so muddy that he "couldn't see the glass in front...
...also twelve, was smothered to death in 1953 by a sand cave-in at Nantucket...
...Standard-Times also said that he has been associated with "so-called right-wing causes" since his retirement from the Army in 1951. "A direct descendant of Nantucket whalers, Col. Bunker has addressed the Friends of Senator McCarthy and other right-wing organizations," according to the newspaper...
...Mooney does not suppose that the election of a Democrat indicates a great switch of political feeling on Nantucket. "I'm riding in on a minority vote all right, but it was the largest minority Nantucket has demonstrated for some time...