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Word: caped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night while striding down the street in black-caped majesty, this Harvardian aroused the suspicions of a Cambridge officer, who obviously felt that no law-abiding citizen should be caught dead in a long black cape. Seeing this sinister character emerge from a dark side-street, the officer immediately summoned the assistance of two Cambridge youths in order to detain the supposed culprit. The appearance of uncivil inhabitants of the town at an official arrest caused some confusion in the student's mind, and ill-considered words were exchanged on both sides. When the student was found to be without...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Black Cloaks and Bluecoats | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

...student, who prefers to remain anonymous, was returning from Radcliffe at 3 a.m., when he claims he was assaulted by two local youths. They grabbed his arms and ripped the buttons on his "long black cape," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Police Arrest Junior for Insolent Conduct | 10/22/1955 | See Source »

...Strong disruptive forces are at work," Jawaharlal Nehru told admiring throngs as he toured South India last week. "But India, from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin, is going to remain one solid, united entity in spite of everything and everybody." Among the forces Nehru had in mind were the forces of Babel, for India is a nation of 14 major tongues and hundreds of dialects. He hoped, by recognizing India's diversity, to unify...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Forces of Babel | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

These are reports on two important literary safaris into the grimly awakening Dark Continent. Novelist Stuart Cloete (rhymes with booty), a Boer South African with several excellent books to his name,* started out in Cape Town and crossed the Equator eight times in one year. U.S. Journalist John Gunther, who is running out of continents to get inside of (he has been Inside Europe, Asia, Latin America and the U.S.A.}, started in Morocco and toured Africa from "stem to stern, from top to bottom." All told, Gunther reckons, he traveled 40,000 miles in a year, visited 105 towns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black & White | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

With his American wife Rehna ("Tiny"), Author Cloete set out from Cape Town and headed directly for the "biggest hole in the world"-Kimberly's fabulous diamond mine (one mile around and 1,335 feet deep). There, where the sons of savages mine the raw material of American engagement rings, they also ride bicycles, wear European clothes, dance to the throb of tom-toms and throw their unwanted children into the giant hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black & White | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

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