Word: shorn
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Ever since the Boer-dominated Nationalist government took over in 1948, its unwavering goal has been a republic for South Africa, shorn of the ties to Britain's monarch that recalled the ugly days of the Boer War. Most of the English-speaking whites opposed the idea of a total breakaway from Britain, fearing not only the economic stagnation that might result from loss of Commonwealth trade ties, but also the free hand this would give to Nationalist Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's white-supremacist apartheid policy...
...plane, on their way to Rio to play for Presidents Eisenhower and Kubitschek, were 23 members of the famed Navy Band. All were killed. Out of a total of 64 aboard the two planes, there were just three survivors-all U.S. Navymen who were riding in the shorn tail section of the Navy transport, which spun down from about 5,000 feet like a falling leaf, allowing them to escape alive with minor injuries...