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Word: caped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wasn't that the linksters were hooking or slicing their tee shots, because the clubs never made it out of the back seat of the 1975 Matador which was being used to transport half of the team to New Seabury Country Club on Cape Cod, the site of the scheduled match...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Driving Woes Plague Linksters In Opening Tri-Meet of Spring | 4/9/1976 | See Source »

Died. Stuart Cloete, 78, prolific South African writer of short stories, essays and more than 20 novels; of a heart attack; in Cape Town. Though he was born in Paris and educated in England, Cloete felt most at home in the land of his Boer ancestors. His first novel, The Turning Wheels, about pioneering Afrikaners, published in 1937, was a bestseller in Britain and the U.S. But it was banned for 37 years in South Africa, perhaps because it described interracial love affairs. Cloete was blunt in assessing the movement toward independence in black nations. "I had thought that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 5, 1976 | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

Seven members of the Phillips Brooks House steering committee along with 11 program chairmen and selected volunteers will discuss next year's goals and possible programs for Phillips Brooks House during a retreat to Cape Cod on April...

Author: By Candace Kaller, | Title: PBH Retreat | 3/25/1976 | See Source »

Turning around and around and around with only the slightest trace of ballet training, the boy refuses to sweat. He whirls on a small round platform set eight feet above the crowd, nearly nude, brandishing a large glimmering orange cape. A dark oval beauty-mark is stencilled on the front of his thigh. He thinks about how hot it is under the lights. Up here on the smooth plaster cylinder he is safe; it is his turf, aloof, contained. Despite the energy of his grinding movements, no emotion glides over his soft face and glazed eyes. Perhaps he imagines that...

Author: By R.e. Liebmann, | Title: The Half-hearted Hustle | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...searchlight the size of a cannon. The disc-jockey abandons his notorious sound system to steer the bright beam over the crowd. The silver-studded dancers break apart like mercury and slither sullenly towards the exit. There is a twenty minute wait for coats;the boy with the orange cape has donned less auspicious clothing and bustles about the cloakroom, calling out numbers, grabbing tickets, rolling his eyes...

Author: By R.e. Liebmann, | Title: The Half-hearted Hustle | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

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