Word: seale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such help. If reelected, Jimmy Carter--whom Moore says the committee "is in no way counting out of the race"--will have to spend the winter between his two terms without the wisdom of Harvard. Four years ago, however, Carter did possess a bound volume embossed with the IOP seal--and his move to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave was still far from smooth. Many have cited the early feuding between Hamilton Jordan's Hatfields, who planned the Carter election, and the McCoys under Jack Watson, who handled the transition, as the first hint of the disorganization and confusion that has haunted...
...famed botanist William Seal, a pioneer in the development of high-yield corn hybrids, began a bizarre experiment. He buried 20 pint-size bottles, each containing 1,000 seeds of 20 weed varieties, near his lab in East Lansing, Mich. His aim, in that age before weedkillers: to find out how long plowed-under seeds could survive, and thus, how long fields needed to be left fallow, to ensure a weed-free crop when replanted...
...Seal Beach, Calif...
...windowed Ikarus buses from Hungary that have a steel bar at the back with empty coat hangers swaying when the bus is in motion. The circus was a big favorite. The first act features the famous Filatov bears and the second, a troupe of huge and somewhat soporific seals who perform in a large water tank with a stage, Like an island, in the center. On the night I was there, one seal could not be persuaded to do anything at all. He swam around dreamily, often floating past the frantic ringmaster, his flippers folded across his stomach. The bears...
...village of Mandai, the tribals first demanded money, then corralled the Bengalis in the village market. The horrified settlers were forced to watch while tribesmen armed with guns, spears and heavy scythes called daos put the torch to dwellings and butchered their occupants. "There was blood everywhere," says Haradhem Seal, 20, a Bengali barber whose entire family-parents, three brothers and three sisters -were murdered. "One man hacked at me with his dao. I collapsed, then several bodies fell on top of me. That was probably what saved...