Word: caped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ichthyologist James Leonard Brierley Smith, of Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, made a formal call last week on stony old Prime Minister Malan. He walked across the lawn of Malan's Cape Town residence and reverently laid a treasure at the Prime Minister's feet. It was a bony, clumsy-looking fish about 5 ft. long, smelling of Formalin and incipient putrefaction. The Prime Minister looked at it dubiously. He is a former dominie of the Dutch Reformed Church, which does not believe in evolution...
...play are horribly stereotyped. The American, the British, the French and the Russian officers billeted together in a small, neutral German province all act like animated caricatures. And when the door of their quarters bursts open by itself on a windless night and Harrison walks in sporting a black cape lined with red velvet on his arm and an evil sneer on his lips there is no question about his supernatural identity. After picking up a blond WAC (Lueen MacGrath) who confides that she is really an angel sent to undo Harrison's deviltries, the group hops...
Luis MIGUEL DOMINGUÍN'S long, sensitive hands have killed more than 2,000 bulls. They first held the cape when he was only five years old, playing with young heifers on the ranch of his father, who was once a bullfighter himself, though not a first-rank one. By the time he was 20, Luis Miguel was second only to the great Manolete...
...appearance at the Barcelona ring. The police advised him to leave town, saying they could not be responsible for his safety. But 15 minutes before the fight, Luis Miguel drove up to the ring. He got out of his car some distance from the gate, meticulously adjusted his embroidered cape upon his shoulder and his montera on his forehead, and strode alone toward the mob. The angry crowd fell silent and opened respectfully before him. That afternoon he put on such a show that he was carried back to his hotel on the shoulders of his fans. Bullfighting...
...member of his profession." ¶In South Africa, Prime Minister Daniel Malan, as Chancellor of the University of Stellenbosch, 1) gave his son his B.A. degree, and 2) issued a few stern Malan-props about a university's obligation to segregate its nonwhites. The nonsegregated Universities of Cape Town and the Witwatersrand, said he, "are a blatant anomaly . . . A university, according to them, need not take into account state policies or the fundamental character of the people. University freedom, they hold, is unlimited, including the right . . . even to say whether the particular university will be for both whites...