Word: seale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that also is going, and the settlement's 400 snowmobiles have entirely replaced the dog sled. About the only thing that has survived from the old days is the hunt. The men still hunt whales from fragile little boats made from animal skins. They also stalk walrus, seal, polar bear and caribou. But now they use high-powered rifles to bring down their prey...
...vote was a considerable personal triumph for Prime Minister Edward Heath, the most European of Britain's leaders since Winston Churchill. As Lord Privy Seal in Macmillan's Cabinet, he was in charge of negotiations for entry between 1961 and 1963, when the effort was ended by the first of De Gaulle's two vetoes. As Heath put it, winding up last week's debate: "I do not think any Prime Minister has stood in this box in time of peace and asked the House to take a positive decision of such importance...
...aftershock ten to 30 times as great as the original explosion, he said, could cause an earthquake. The minute Schlesinger got the word from Nixon, AEC workers were set to work shoveling sand, gravel and cement into the Amchitka shaft, in the "stemming" operation that is supposed to seal the explosion off from any possibility of blowout...
...conclusion of the rally, the demonstrators heard a video tape speech by Bobby Seal, chairman of the Black Panther Party, after which a dinner of Vietnamese food was served...
...nothing about the plan until after he became Prime Minister, two months before the attack. "Hirohito alone stood at the top of the mountain," Bergamini writes. "He alone had full access to army planning, navy planning." When it finally came time to decide, Hirohito called in his Lord Privy Seal and said: "Instruct Prime Minister Tojo to proceed according to plan...