Word: cod
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most vociferous reaction came from Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. The vacation islands now have one representative apiece; under the redistricting plan, they will share a single representative with either upper or lower Cape Cod. Complaining that they will be deprived of an individual representative for the first time since the 17th century, some islanders threatened secession (TIME, March 21, 1977). New Hampshire's archconservative Governor Meldrim Thomson muddied the waters further by promising Nantucketers that he would give them "two or three representatives and maybe a senator" in Concord's legislature; he also pointed out that...
...then there was the time me and the guys drove our mopeds through the reserve desk at Lamont...Remember the time we mixed the ham sandwiches on white bread in with the salami at the Hillel Deli supper? Lynyrd Skynyrd will be at the boring old Cape Cod Colisseum on June 18 at 8 pm? Oh, so you're going to be waitressing on the Cape this summer while secretly shacking up with that guy with the moped, and your parents think you're staying at your roommate's summer home, huh? Have fun at the concert, kid. Joan Baez...
...drill waters. According to Oil Consultant John D. Moody, fully one-third of the world's undiscovered oil is locked beneath the sea bed. The geological profile of the U.S. Eastern Continental shelf holds hope of rich deposits. Most promising: the Georges Banks, 125 miles east of Cape Cod, and the Baltimore Canyon, 75 miles off the New Jersey shore...
...past experience, I worked four summers at a camp on Cape Cod, so this job should be a piece of cherry-covered cheese cake by comparison...
Inevitably, the wave of claims has stirred up anti-Indian hostility. "We are bitter," says George Benway, chairman of the selectmen of Mashpee, Mass., one besieged town on Cape Cod. In a combative spirit sardonically known as "whitelash," the Town of Mashpee has filed a countersuit against the Wampanoag tribe -demanding $200 million as the cost of all accrued improvements'if the Wampanoags should win their claim to much of the town's property...