Word: yarmouth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does an honorable Englishman comport himself? Deighton's engaging, complex hero, Detective Superintendent Douglas Archer, 30, carries on, tackling the tricky homicide cases for which he is celebrated (the Pimlico bread knife slaying, the Great Yarmouth seafood murder). Now, however, Oxonian Archer and his boozy, street-smart assistant, Detective Sergeant Harry Woods, are working directly under Gruppenführer Fritz Kellerman, senior SS officer and police chief of Great Britain. Unlike his compatriots, the Yard man is free to move around at will in a prewar Railton automobile; he gets German-issue cigarettes, frequent dollops of real Highland Scotch...
...five man Crimson contingent--coach Dave Zewinski '76, seniors George Hughes, Gene Purdy and Jon Stein and sophomore Tommy Murray--had entered the International University Sports Fishing Seminar and Competition which has been sponsored by the town of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia since...
Heading west from Chatham, Route 28 goes through Harwich, Dennis, Yarmouth and Hyannis. These towns exemplify the worst in "development." Hyannis, the center of the town of Barnstable, is hardly worth mentioning except that it is the largest village on the Cape...
Route 6A then runs through West Barnstable, Barnstable, Yarmouth, Dennis and Brewster. On a sunny day with no wind, Sandy Neck beach in Barnstable is perfect for a picnic. Even in April it can get warm enough to tempt some into the water. For those who can think of books and vacation at the same time, the Parnassus Bookstore on Route 6A in Yarmouth is a fine second-hand book shop...
...letters a day; his mail went, he said, "to Lord Tennyson to ask where he got the word balm-cricket and what he meant by it; to the Sporting News about a term in horse-racing, or pugilism; or the inventor of the word hooligan ... to the Mayor of Yarmouth about the word bloater in the herring fishery." Once he wrote to the Linnaean Society for help with the word aphis - first used by Linnaeus for green fly; his inquiry made its scholarly rounds until someone in desperation thought to ask the best wordman he knew - Dr. Murray...