Word: headland
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...soon as she passed the lastsheltering headland of Chesapeake Bay, the presidential yacht Williamsburg ran into heavy weather. For two days and two nights as she skirted the storm-buffeted Carolina capes, she rolled and pitched and yawed with sickening vigor. The President, who had chosen a sea route to Key West as a gesture of friendliness to the Navy, surrendered to the unfriendliness of the sea and the built-in crankiness of his personal ship; he took to his berth, stopped eating...