Word: capes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...suffered a knee injury that was to trouble him the rest of his life. He graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors from U.C.L.A., took his doctorate at Harvard, later did advanced work in anthropology and colonial policy at Northwestern University, the London School of Economics and the University of Cape Town...
...cloaked, bearded, shaven-headed figure strides forward, accompanied by four armed bodyguards ("You just can't be too careful with a man of this stature," says his manager). A black girl doing an "African dance of adoration" stops long enough to remove Hayes' orange, black and white cape, revealing him arrayed in black tights, fur cuffs, a leather vest and a necklace of gold chains...
Born. To Dr. Christiaan Barnard, 49, South African heart surgeon and transplant pioneer; and his second wife Barbara, 21, daughter of a Johannesburg industrialist: their first child, a son; in Cape Town...
Superhang-ups for a superhero, but Superman is not the only hero hanging his cape outside Dr. Feelgood's door. Today almost all comicbook characters have problems. As in many fields, the word is relevance. The trend may have begun a decade ago, but in the socially aware '70s it has reached full blossom. The comics' caped crusaders have become as outraged about racial injustice as the congressional Black Caucus and as worried about pollution as the Sierra Club. Archfiends with memorable names like the Hulk and Dr. Doom are still around, but they are often pushed...
...policy along an erratic course. By Macmillan's count, Dulles switched signals at least three times upon taking the canal issue to the TJ.N. He dreamed up the 18-nation Suez Canal Users Association but sabotaged it by admitting publicly that the users would probably go around the Cape rather than shoot their way through the canal...