Word: caped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bypassed Florida and headed for North Carolina. By this time, the red-and black hurricane pennants were flying from Hatteras to Cape Cod. Big ships scurried out to sea; small boats were hauled ashore...
Charles Frederick Grover '50--the gentleman in question--received front-page treatment this summer because he is a Harvard man, because he attempted an incredible 45-mile swim from Boston to Provincetown, on the tip of Cape Cod, and because he had marital problems to boot...
...Women's Defense of the Constitution League. In the two months since, the few have grown to 20,000 members in 200 towns. Whenever a Minister arrived at a public ceremony, 40 or 50 women gathered and formed a silent gauntlet. When one Cabinet Minister flew from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth to Durban to Johannesburg, Black Sashers were on hand. 50 strong, at each airport to give him a grim, silent greeting...
...Some shook their fists in the women's faces. "I'll hit you across the face as you've never been hit before," one threatened. Inside the hall, Justice Minister Swart fumed: "This ridiculous action by these people will only make us more determined to put Cape Colored [people of mixed white and Negro blood] on a separate roll . . . The Black Sash group makes us more determined than ever to see to it that these [anti-Boer] people will never again come to power...
...Professor," took a long time to get to his first battlefield-through no fault or desire of his own. He spent World War I in frustration and boredom on the island of Guam. On Dec. 7, 1941 he was in Iceland. It was not until the Cape Gloucester operation in March 1944 that Smith, by then a greying colonel, got his first taste of combat and a Bronze Star. In his second operation, bloody Peleliu, he won the Legion of Merit for the smooth landing of three Marine assault teams. From Peleliu to Okinawa and from Inchon to Changjin reservoir...