Word: caped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What Will Happen . . .?" In reality, the Promotion of Bantu Self-Government bill was nothing more than the logical last step in a policy that began some 300 years ago, when Dutch East India Co. colonists settled on the Cape of Good Hope and there planted an almond hedge to keep blacks and whites apart. The recent turmoil all over Africa has made South African whites increasingly anxious to raise a thick hedge that would prove impenetrable to the Union's blacks...
...ground-all contained in a 45-lb. package about the size of two shoe boxes. The ground unit picks up the televised signal, produces a finished photograph in less than one minute after the signal is received. ¶ A two-stage Thor-Able rocket rose from Florida's Cape Canaveral, blazed its way out of the atmosphere and 6,000 miles downrange toward the South Atlantic. There a squadron of C-54 transport planes treaded expectantly in the lower air. Soon one of the crews saw the bright glow made by the nose cone's reentry into...
...possibly on a bet) which struck a beer bottle, and sank under Eliot Bridge. A collie dragged him to safety. Courtney possessed unusual empathy with animals and was often warned about the pets he would keep in his room. His roommates minded only the baby albatross Courtney found off Cape Ann ("It seemed like such bad luck, at least potentially,") but the administration had less leniency...
Around the walled ring at Xajay bull-breeding ranch in Queretaro, Mexico this week, cowhands watched critically as a young American in blue jeans and baseball cap whirled his scarlet cape in a long veronica, smoothly led the charging young practice heifer past him, its horns coming within inches of his legs. Though still a little stiff from a goring received in a fight a month ago, Baron Clements Jr., 20, of Kilgore, Texas shows signs of becoming the best U.S.-born matador in the alien art of bullfighting since the heyday of Brooklyn's Sidney Franklin 25 years...
Mysterious Silence. On Jan. 31, 1958, a Jupiter-C, fired from Cape Canaveral, put Explorer I into a fine orbit. With two massive Sputniks to compete with, the U.S. pinned its hopes for outdoing the Russians on the superiority of Van Allen's instruments...