Word: caps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steam turbine company in Trenton, N.J., played end on Princeton's football team, won the John Prentiss Poe Memorial cup, the highest honor Princeton can bestow on a varsity football player. An honor student in philosophy, he was vice president of his class, president of his eating club, Cap and Gown, president of the Westminster Foundation, Presbyterian religious meeting group...
...Yugoslav reconnaissance troops and Canadian headquarters personnel-yet the world's first international police force, taking form in Egypt last week, became from the outset a real instrument of power. Danish riflemen a little sheepishly took up buffer positions between the Egyptian and Anglo-French lines at El Cap, about 27 miles south of Port Said, and this week Norwegian and Danish troops are scheduled to relieve the Anglo-French forces of control of a large part of Port Said. Close to 2,700 officers and men, armed and equipped, were now under the Canadian U.N. commander, Eedson Burns...
...clear away completely the 47 vessels and two bridges with which the Egyptians blocked the canal promises to be a formidable operation. But British and French salvage experts who, by last week, had cleared a "Liberty-ship channel" suitable for 10,000-ton ships as far south as El Cap, estimated that a similar channel could be opened all the way down the canal within three months, allowing one way traffic to thread its way past other hulks...
Bang! Estes couldn't shake the tail of his coonskin cap half that fast, let alone his weary hand...
...censorship of books, the gambling casino, and the ghetto (though no Renaissance power was less overtly anti-Semitic). Many of these reflect what Author McCarthy regards as the persistent Venetian style and temperament-dry, succinct, tough-minded. In the 18th century, the last of the doges, handing the ducal cap to an attendant, remarked matter-of-factly, "I won't be needing this any more." Venice can boast no profound thinkers, no religious martyrs, no native-born legendary lovers. Of the world, worldly, it pursued wealth and reared up pleasure domes to become what Byron called "the revel...