Word: seale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sick cow, the crops were burning up for lack of rain. A branch of the family in the funeral business was stuck with a monstrously expensive glass coffin. Fortuitously, the area's biggest illegal distiller expired. His widow, impressed with the glass box and its air-tight rubber seal, bought the thing on sight...
Dartmouth was founded by the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock in 1769 to provide an institution for the education of American Indians. To this day, American Indians pay no tuition to attend Dartmouth. Because of this tradition, the athletic teams were named the Dartmouth Indians and the college symbol (not its seal) was a rather stern-looking representation of an Indian with a small headdress. In 1974, after protests from Indians at Dartmouth. President Kemeny dropped the Indian symbol and changed the team name to "Dartmouth Big Green." The controversy, however, still continues about the college symbol, and the Review is able...
...fact. For centuries, the only other walking mammals that most polar natives met used four legs or flippers. The Inuit were built like nature's thermos bottles, with short arms and legs, and small hands and feet that conserved heat stoked in barrel-like torsos. They ate seal meat and blubber, wiped the grease from their lips with partridge wings and talked mostly of hunting and sled dogs...
None of these safety features is prohibitively expensive. Aluminum seals cost 2? apiece at most, and the machine used to attach them to bottles sells for only $9,000. But it could be three or four months before the drug industry can gear up to produce new containers. Even then, as FDA Commissioner Hayes notes, none of the methods is foolproof. Packaging experts admit, for example, that a careful criminal with a razor blade and a bit of glue could remove and replace an aluminum seal seemingly intact...
...grand and staggering scale. Napier's set is a kind of automobile graveyard, but it contains far more than discarded tires, battered wheels and disemboweled body parts. He has constructed a collage of the detritus of contemporary civilization: smeared paper plates, unstrung tennis racquets, old Red Seal Victor records, Drambuie bottles and boxes of Tender Vittles. Every object is outsize, as a cat might...