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Word: capes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bishop's persuasive powers depended a good deal on deep-set, piercing blue eyes that seemed to transfix his viewers, and a burnished voice that would soar, pause theatrically or plunge to a hushed whisper. Wearing a cape and large pectoral cross, and with a blackboard as his only prop, he performed flawlessly without script or cue cards. He put something like 30 hours' preparation into each show, memorizing key points and the eloquent windup that would precede his famous "God love you" sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Microphone of God | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...sale, currently scheduled for December 18, will open a tract off Cape Cod--one of the world's richest fishing grounds--to exploratory drilling. Groups protesting the sale said that the Department of Interior's decision underestimates the roughness of the area's waters and the value of its fisheries...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Groups Call for Precautions Before Sale of Drilling Rights | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...more fashion conscious, N-M offers a men's three-quarter length "Transylvania look" evening cape made of karacul lamb and black-dyed rabbit. With the requisite red satin lining, the Dracula outfit sells...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: All I Want for Christmas......Is A Blimp or Two | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...remote root of the conflict was idealism, the immediate cause, greed. Afrikaners-Dutch Calvinist settlers-had been in South Africa for 150 years when the British took over the Cape of Good Hope during the Napoleonic Wars. In the 1830s parliamentary idealists in London decreed an end to slavery in the Empire, and some of the Afrikaners, dependent on their slaves, trekked into the wilderness to the north. The leaders of these trekboers (wandering farmers) founded two independent republics, the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. No one but the native blacks would have cared had not a rich diamond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hearts of Darkness | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

Stenhouse made up his mind; he would sign. His friends took him out in Cape Cod--where he was playing summer ball in a college league--for a "bye-bye-get-wasted-night...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Mike Stenhouse Meets Charles O. Finley | 11/6/1979 | See Source »

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