Word: caped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the pampas, tractors towed combines out of the fields. Twenty million liters of wine mellowed in gigantic oak casks in western Mendoza. Off toward Cape Horn, coats thickened on 19 million sheep. In the subtropical north, the machetes of the cane cutters flashed...
...straight out of the 18th century. In those days, Sizer once said, "things were done in real style." In his own way he tried to keep that style alive. Few sights were more impressive than that of Theodore Sizer marching majestically across the campus with his ancient blue-black cape billowing out behind...
Living Legend. Picasso comes down - stocky, spry, bronzed as a piece of sculpture. At 75 he is a living legend and he knows it; his dark brown eyes gleam as they sweep the room in a commanding glance. He picks up a black Spanish cape from a pile of clothes, flings it around his shoulders with the lordly grace of a matador, tops it off with a Spanish hat from the pile. " Magnifique , this material," he cries. "It is not only elegant, but it keeps you warm." Next thing the visitor knows, Picasso is romping on the lawn with...
Died. Rear Admiral Edward Joseph ("Mike") Moran, U.S.N., 63, jut-jawed World War II captain of the light cruiser Boise, who won fame for his part in the 1942 night battle of Cape Esperance, off Guadalcanal (he ordered on contact: "Pick out the biggest one and fire!"), in which half a dozen Japanese warships were sunk in 27 minutes of close-range shelling; in Paris...
...Luis Procuna, a 33-year-old Mexican matador who in the last 18 years has killed 1,324 bulls, and has survived innumerable gorings. On the day of the corrida, the matador gets up early to wet a finger to the wind. "If the wind lifts your cape," he explains, "you've got the bull in your lap." Then he has breakfast: nothing heavier than consomme and an orange, so that the surgeon, if need be, can operate tidily. Then he pulls on his suit of lights (traje de luces), says a grim goodbye to the wife and kids...