Word: caped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...predecessor Daniel Malan's, was to disenfranchise the 45,000 mixed-blood people who still have votes in South Africa. One of the "entrenched clauses," written into the South African constitution by the British Parliament in 1909, guarantees the voting rights of all mixed-blood people in Cape Province. Twice the Nationalists have passed legislation that, in effect, would enable the government to root out this "entrenched clause," but twice the High Court has ruled their efforts unconstitutional. To override the court, the constitution requires a two-thirds majority of both Houses of Parliament. But the Nationalists...
After breakfast and a careful scanning of Formosa papers and others flown in from Hong Kong, Chiang dons his khaki cape, enters his 1949 Cadillac, and makes the 25-minute drive to his office in the Ministry of National Defense in downtown Taipei (pop. 500,000). Soldiers of the security force appear as if by magic along the route, then as magically melt away after he has passed. Past a dark bronze bust of himself on the stair landing, he walks quickly and alone to his third-floor office, where the blue velvet curtains are always drawn for security...
...Durries Crane, onetime ballerina with Chicago's Civic Opera, suddenly became aware of a horrifying coincidence: the First Lady wore a blue-and-green-print taffeta dress almost exactly like her own. In the reception line Mrs. Crane tried to conceal her own outfit with her mink cape, but Mamie spied the maneuver, gaily cried: "Don't hide it. I think it's pretty." Muttered blushing Ledova Crane: "It's not really the same." "Oh, yes it is," bubbled Mamie as she opened Mrs. Crane's frantically clutched cape. "You just took...
...speech she gave-as well he might: it was a paraphrase of one of his own sermons. Soon, however. "God just spun [him] around like a top and said, 'Peter -you idiot-this is My grandest plan for you' "; and so they were married. After a Cape Cod honeymoon, Peter received a call to the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., where his preaching of a "redblooded . . . bronzed, fearless" Christ brought young and old by incredible thousands to his church door...
...moviegoers with their eyes popped out on stalks. The picture offers: 1) a full-dress Irish hunt in full cry after a fox; 2) a formal ball in an Irish country house; 3) the great Irish potato famine of the 18405; 4) the Great Trek of the Boers from Cape Town to the fertile valleys of the interior; 5) the war dance of 3,000 Zulus and their attack on a wagon ring; 6) a savage fight between two men armed with bullwhips; 7) a cloudburst, during which a huge tree is felled by lightning; 8) the gruesome amputation...