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Word: backcloths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1953-1953
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...altar, flanked by the mayors of nearby cities and other distinguished guests, the Bishop of Grahamstown tried to perform the Anglican marriage ceremony. But a gaggle of more than 70 camera-bearing whites crowded the honored guests off their chairs, knocked over the Communion wine, tore the altar backcloth, left empty Coca-Cola bottles on the altar-cloth. Above the altar, someone raised a huge billboard exhorting all present to smoke Commando cigarettes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dismembers of the Wedding | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

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