Word: seale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Williams's group arrived, the crowd was able to seal off all of the entrances simultaneously-preventing Justice Department employees from returning to work from their lunch breaks...
...first steps came in midsummer of 1969 when U.S. tourists were allowed to bring $100 worth of Chinese-made goods into the U.S. At the same time, Nixon lifted the travel ban to allow Americans with a legitimate reason to visit China. The seal on the new policy was set in late summer during Nixon's visit to Rumania, where he declared that the U.S. would deal with Communist countries on the basis of their foreign policy and not their internal politics. Since the statement was delivered in a capital friendly to Peking, it was an unmistakable presidential overture...
...robbed of his riches and his innocence. After Rakewell has scorned his true love and taken up with the bearded lady, Shadow reveals himself as a diabolical agent, and plays Tom a card game, with Rakewell's soul as the stakes. Although Tom wins at this operatic Seventh Seal, the moral of the story turns out to be that such things don't have happy endings, and Tom ends his days stark raving...
...Jack Rabbit. Technical difficulties slowed acceptance of the Wankel. Toyo Kogyo paid West Germany's Audi NSU $12 million in the early '60s for rights to the engine, spent seven years and $20 million improving its performance. The most crucial problem, devising a tight but long-lasting seal at the three apexes of the rotor, was solved by substituting a carbon alloy for the cast-iron tip used in German models. The original Wankel engines belched clouds of smoke, so Toyo Kogyo built a 40-lb. "thermal-reactor" afterburner to oxidize the exhaust and attached a dozen more...
...threaten the serenity of Chiang's island fief. A bomb went off last October in a USIS library, and last month another smashed a Bank of America branch. The incidents remain unexplained, but just in case they presage more anti-U.S. explosions, American businessmen have begun to seal off auxiliary entrances to stores and factories and to hire extra guards...