Word: caped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fresh church growth and activity. Adventists now have some 900,000 baptized members throughout the world, who contributed $56 million in offerings last year, helped support 2,000 foreign missionaries. The fall council's main business: approving a new foreign missions budget of $21 million. ¶ The Cape Town Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church officially viewed with alarm a report that Roman Catholics had dedicated "South Africa and its people" to the "Blessed Virgin Mary Assumed into Heaven." Also alarmed at Catholic growth in South Africa (e.g., 170,000 Catholics of white or mixed race, 660,000 Negroes...
...tenth hole of Cape Cod's Eastward Ho! course, with an uphill green, left-hander Colcord teed off using a lethal brassie. Having neglected to shout "fore," and because he lost the ball in a bright sun, Colcord braced himself for an expected embroglio as the preceding foursome turned and set at him with high-pitched shouts...
Gloomy and forbidding vistas opened ahead of the shiny new Nash sedan as it followed the curves of U.S. Highway 101 up the Oregon coast. Dawn had just broken, the light was dim, and at Cape Foulweather, five miles north of Newport (pop. 3,250), the empty roadway sometimes seemed to be curving off into thin air beyond the cliffs...
...Then Thomson announced that the company records, which they had thrust into the dashboard compartment of the car, were missing. At his insistence, they made a long night drive back to Newport, got duplicates, and then, just as dawn was breaking, headed for Portland again-and for violence at Cape Foulweather...
While Gandhi suffered. Prime Minister Daniel Malan, whose heart has a high melting point, pushed on with plans to abridge still further the liberties of South Africa's nonwhites. Malan's next great objective was to exclude Cape Province's 49,000 voters of mixed blood from participation in "white"' elections and to limit their political representation to four white M.P.s. Two of Malan's schemes to achieve this had already been declared unconstitutional by South Africa's appeal court, so last week the old (79) preacher-politician called a joint session...