Word: caped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nations. "Great is Malan's victory," crowed Die Vaderland. "The brutal reality is that we are two nations . . ." said the Cape Argus. Cunningly, Daniel Malan tried to close the white ranks to his own political advantage. He offered a coalition with "all those who accept apartheid in full sincerity," hoping thereby to gain the two-thirds majority which he needs, but does not have, to 1) disenfranchise 48,000 half-caste voters in Cape Province, 2) eliminate English as an equal official language, 3) snap the last tenuous threads that bind South Africa to the Commonwealth...
...South Africa last week, the supreme court put a crimp in apartheid, the system of rigid racial segregation by which Prime Minister Daniel Malan hopes forever to separate 2,600,000 whites from four times their number of nonwhites. A Cape Town Negro named George Lusu had been arrested and tried for sitting down in a railroad waiting room marked "Whites Only." Chief Justice Albert van de Sandt Centlivres delivered the majority verdict: "The State has provided a railroad service for all its citizens, irrespective of race . . . Segregation is [legal] but it could be and should be exercised without members...
...Sybil), instead of merely copying the trends of Rome and Paris. She uses native Irish materials, designs many of the fabrics herself, works closely with the Irish weavers, and turns out clothes from $80 to $475. In the middle bracket ($295) is her green velvet, off-the-shoulder "Kinsale Cape" for evening wear. One of the prettiest of the Connolly lot: "Kitchen Fugue," a full-skirted evening dress with stole, made of multicolored Irish-linen kitchen toweling...
...reversion to Edwardianism, and to our dismay, we found several. Although we've seen nobody wearing a bowler, we know there are several floating around. Various acquaintances are known to possess slim, black walking sticks. And the other day on Plympton Street, we noticed somebody wearing a black cape...
...stranger figure . . . was not to be seen in London. Gentle in looks, half wild in externals, his face worn by pain and the fierce reactions of laudanum, his hair and straggling beard neglected, he had yet a distinction and aloofness." On the hottest day he wore a huge brown cape and a "disastrous hat"; round his shoulders was slung a fishing creel, in which he placed the books he was given to review. The total effect was that of "some weird pedlar or packman...