Word: seal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...popular, was jubilant. Cheering crowds trampled on thousands of framed Obote photographs. Some tried to scale the walls of the 17-story Apolo Hotel, Obote's namesake, to tear down its huge neon sign. Others attempted to commandeer a tank to blast an engraving of Obote from the seal of the Parliament building...
...Harvard Classics, that six foot shelf of great books collected by President Eliot over fifty years ago. On the cover of this promotional pamphlet were the ".. words by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes [which] express the philosophy and purpose of this university and were the inspiration for the university seal...
...Sealed Envelopes. A few members of Congress have protested vigorously against the spreading cloak of governmental secrecy, notably Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, who is concerned about national security affairs, and Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina, who regards the proliferation of domestic intelligence activities as a serious threat to individual civil rights. It should be added, though, that the House and Senate are often less than candid about their own operations. The requirement that politicians report their campaign spending, for example, is honored more in the breach than the observance, since only a tiny fraction of funds actually...
...naturalist and lecturer, he is a legendary figure in British wildlife circles. He is called Kenzie the Wild-Goose Man. He is also the Owl Man, the Weasel Man, the Finch Man−a caller of the wild who can lure a hare from its hole or a baby seal onto the beach. Thorpe can mimic 88 different bird calls, ranging from the swallow's high titter to the low cluck of the red-legged partridge and the sexy whistle of the gray plover...
...phone will ring to say they've found him." Worried that their husbands' bodies had been incinerated in the intense fires of the explosions, and discouraged by Consolidation Coal Co.'s reports that recovery could stretch over years, they agreed to a plan that would seal off from commercial production the portion of the mine containing the most inaccessible bodies. That area would become a cemetery, and a monument to the miners would be erected on the surface...