Word: smuggler
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...civilian authorities on the theory that punishment would be stiffer than that handed out by a Navy court martial. Many who had served with The Big E were waiting anxiously for his day in court. Meanwhile, the irreverent U.S. Navy began to call Erdmann Beach by a new name: Smuggler's Cove...
Hero Julian Starke is a poet and a Briton and, consequently, unemployable -"too clever for an executive position, too vague for trade, and too feeble to shift cement bags." He has worked variously and unvigorously as a cabbage rooter, road mender, ice cream hawker, oil company minor-domo and smuggler. As the book opens, he lives in a derelict farmhouse in Gloucestershire, but he is a bohemian, not a beatnik. The distinction lies in the fact that he makes his bed once a week, writes coherent English, and laughs at himself now and then...
...Hampshire--Franconia, Mt. Sunapee, Cranmore, and Wildcat. Vermont--Hogback, Smuggler's Notch, Big Bromley, Snow Valley, Jay Peak, Pico Peak, Stowe, Mad River Glen, Sugarbush, and Mt. Ascutney...
...Smuggler's Notch--27-52, packed powder, excellent...
...walls of its Angevin castle still keep guard over Lundy's only landing place, whence the medieval barons De Marisco once dispatched their men to raid the coast of England. It was from Lundy that the elegant 17th century pirate "Admiral" Nutt defied the Royal Navy; where the smuggler Mr. Thomas Benson, M.P., fired on all ships that did not dip their flags; and where a family called Heaven once ruled a kingdom of the same name. The islanders still point to the treacherous rocks that surround them and gleefully tell of the time a great galleon...