Word: capered
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...James Morris put his finances in order, resigned from his club (the Travellers in London), divorced his wife of more than 20 years, and moved into the house of another woman. So stale and sad a marital caper would normally raise no eyebrows, let alone lead to a book. But Morris' circumstances were rather special. For one thing, the other woman was Morris himself. After undergoing a transsexual operation in Casablanca to shed his manhood and the name James, Morris now lives in Bath, England, under the name Jan Morris, happily experimenting with lipstick, twin sweater sets and pearls...
...Philip Caper, of the Senate Committee, said the April 2 Kennedy-Mills bill was a compromise necessary to get any kind of health insurance coverage...
Students who are over 18 and have not worked would not be covered by this bill, reflecting the present "work ethic" in the Ways and Means Committee, Caper added...
Physicians must look "beyond their immediate self-interest and incomes," Caper said and added they must see that "health care is more than a commercial commodity...
...Harvard Strike was another such theatrical caper. And it helped, in its small way, to liberate American institutions from their choreographed roles as pawns of a military order run amok...