Word: seale
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week the politician of that pair, Lyndon Johnson, put the presidential seal on the friendship of 30 years by naming the lawyer, Abe Fortas, as his first appointee to the U.S. Supreme Court...
Coast Guard Masque. Long's hearings revealed many other IRS cloak-and-daggerisms. In Pittsburgh, agents had even electronically bugged the official IRS seal in the Chamber of Commerce building, and put behind the plaque a two-way mirror and a camera. In Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Montgomery and Kansas City, IRS conference rooms were equipped with two-way mirrors or hidden microphones so that agents could watch or hear taxpayers and their lawyers while they conversed. In Boston, an IRS agent disguised himself as a Coast Guard petty officer (although it is a federal offense to impersonate a military...
...those who like their Bond stirred and not unsettlingly shaken, ABC is aiming somewhere between 007 and 77 Sunset Strip. The F.B.I. will serve up ex-77 Sunset Stripper Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as an agent so gosh-darn clean cut that J. Edgar Hoover has grunted his first TV seal of approval...
...water hyacinth has been brought partially under control with the familiar chemical 2,4-D. But 2,4-D may harm surrounding vegetation and is expensive to apply. The manatee, a clumsy, seal-like sea cow with a voracious appetite for hyacinths, has proved a devastating enemy to the plant. Manatees have been placed in bodies of water as a kind of marine lawnmower. They, too, have a drawback: they are listless lovers and slow to reproduce. Two of the sea cows were kept in the same tank for two years. They have no progeny to show for their long...
David O. (for Oliver) Selznick grew up in the magic, flickering light of the silent films, came to maturity as Hollywood was mastering the revolutionary complexities of sound, set his seal as a producer on the industry by proving that literary classics such as Anna Karenina, A Tale of Two Cities, Little Lord Fauntleroy and Little Women could be transferred to the screen with fidelity and power. Other Selznick productions included King Kong, Dinner at Eight and A Star Is Born. And for ten years running, movie exhibitors ranked him No. 1 producer of box-office successes. But even...