Word: seale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once it was solely an occupation to for Eskimos and masochists. Hunkering down beside holes in icebound rivers and lakes, in temperatures that would give a seal the sniffles, the Izaak Waltons of midwinter would spend hours shivering and waiting for the tug on a line that told them a pike or a perch had been hooked...
...model and decided that a correction was in order. "I'm going to pull your nose off!" he cried, tugging at the proboscis of California Governor Ronald Reagan. Chris, who has several birth defects, was posing with Reagan in the Governor's Sacramento office for an Easter Seal fund-raising poster. "Hey," grinned Reagan, "I'm going to take your nose off too," and he returned a friendly tweak. Then he offered his constituent a perk: the jar of jelly beans he keeps on his desk...
...were still leaks. In June the New York Times began publishing the Pentagon papers. As Nixon later contended: "There was every reason to believe this was a security leak of unprecedented proportions." To find out who was responsible, Nixon created the plumbers, an investigative unit designed to locate and seal off leaks. Yet the unauthorized disclosures continued. In July a Times story outlined the U.S. negotiating position at the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) in Helsinki...
...from the kind of accord achieved by such lesser powers as France or West Germany. The effect of the Kissinger detente, he fears, will be to neutralize Western Europe, limit its world role, and even block any development of its nuclear capability. "The agreement of June 22 put the seal on what had been prepared for a long time ... a kind of modus vivendi in the management of world affairs between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in their relations," said Jobert. "I'm not the one who is saying this. It is in the June 22 agreement...
...record sealing provisions which go into effect December 28 state that persons who have no drug violations on their records except possession of marijuana may complete the petition, which will automatically seal the individual's record...