Word: seale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last Yeivin found a dim identity for the mysterious tell. In the Israelite stratum he came across 15 pottery jar handles bearing the seal of the Jewish Kingdom of Judah. Two of them had in addition four Hebrew letters spelling Mamshat, the name of a Judean city whose site has never been identified...
...Ismailis, wherever they are located in the Middle East, must live harmoniously with other sects and with other peoples. "The Ismaili community operates its own banks, schools, and hospitals, but does not restrict its services to members of the sect," he declared. It is the Aga's task to seal together the various communities contained within the religion. "A Muslim leader, unlike a Western religious leader, cannot be stationary and withdrawn...
...child, French Writer-Director Jean-Paul Le Chanois recorded a scene that would seem guaranteed to outrage maiden aunts, set 15-year-olds to snickering aloud, and increase the watch-and-ward membership twelvefold. Instead, the moment is one of wonder. The picture earned an M.P.A. Production Code seal and approval of the American Medical Association and the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency, will be shown throughout...
...awesome product of three arduous summers and winters spent by eleven Walt Disney photographers in the Canadian and Alaskan far north. Their cameras caught enough to make any naturalist drool with delight. A polar bear plunges into the icy Arctic seas to give vain chase to a frisky seal; cocky bear cubs attack a one-ton walrus and drive him from his perch; a wolverine, nastiest of all far northern beasts, shrugs off the dive-bomb attacks of an osprey to climb a tall tree and devour a fledgling. Most impressive scene of all: Photographer James Simon found a colony...
Milestone: the Baghdad Pact. The U.S. helped set up a new grouping of Britain, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and Iraq designed to seal off the Middle East's northern tier, halfway supported the pact but did not join it, for fear of offending Saudi Arabia and India and of getting associated with British colonial power...