Word: seale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...byword was "Cool it for Carl." The more moderate majority of Negroes, who all too often in the past have been too apathetic, fearful or despairing to use the ballot as an effective weapon, this time showed rare cohesion and voted their interests. If bloc voting wins no seal of approval in civics texts, it has been the device by which every ethnic group in American history has exerted and earned its political muscle...
Unfortunately, Hornblower's contribution to Trafalgar is not completely documented, for Author Forester died last year at 66 before he could finish the story. He left notes, however, telling briefly what Hornblower would have done. Equipped with Napoleon's official seal (captured by Hornblower from an unsuspecting French brigantine), he would have arranged to deliver Napoleon's fleet to Trafalgar, where Admiral Nelson was waiting in ambush. As far as it goes, this last Hornblower story is, like its eleven predecessors, told with impeccable, salty craftsmanship and a fine, bracing conviction that history needs to be improved...
...mergers a month. Explains Chesham Director Nicholas Stacey: "Our job is to explore the field in which our client is interested and find the most suitable company for his needs. Then we negotiate and put a valuation on it for him. Finally, we stamp on our 'Good Housekeeping seal...
...nothing," Che wrote, "but with little confidence that she would keep her word." Che's final, fatal error was getting trapped where he did. Though the steep, dense ravines provided ideal cover for his men, the army was able to command the mountains and finally surround him and seal off all exits...
...promise of secrecy if they hoped, by their considerable eminence and persuasiveness and not by opposition, to influence Johnson in a candid discussion. This hope need not have been a futile one; it was certainly a long shot, but well worth trying. I suspect that they themselves offered to seal their own lips for its sake. And then came the leak...