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Word: sealed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know you're going to win, bear Damon Runyon's advice in mind. "Son, no matter how far you travel, or how smart you get, always remember this: Some day, somewhere, a guy is going to come to you and show you a deck of cards on which the seal is never broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that the jack of spades will jump out of this deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet him, for as sure as you do, you are going to get an ear full...

Author: By Paul R. Simms, | Title: An Antidote for Hard Work | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

Moschita, of Federal Express commercial fame, leads courses more organized and elucidating than many here at Harvard. (Infact, T.M.U. is grounded in the Harvard tradition, having lifted the Harvard seal and substituted Verifast for Veritas.) Students at T.M.U. get a minute-by-minute--i.e., course by course--written outline. Each period begins with appropriate sound effects. There are snores for philosophy and ape squeels for biology. The professor gives a summary at the beginning of each class--for example, in biology, "I'm a mutant. You're mutant. We are all mutants...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: An Academia Nut | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...lonely need with empty gab, insecurity with a not entirely trustworthy savvy, he is the most dangerous kind of pest, the type who worms rather than blusters his way into your life. The movie works the same way. For all its broadly farcical air, Planes, Trains and Automobiles finally seals its bond with the audience in the same way that Martin and Candy seal theirs, with a sly, shy resort to sentiment. Maybe that's just the spirit of the season, but one does not mind indulging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Worst-Case Scenario PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...superior Crimson squad went on to seal the victory...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: W. Spikers Sweep Assumption, Wheaton | 11/4/1987 | See Source »

After the shelling stopped, a Navy SEAL (Sea, Air and Land) commando team in a rubber Zodiac raft tied explosives to the pilings that remained and demolished them. Five miles away, a second SEAL team boarded another oil platform abandoned hours earlier by Iranians and destroyed communications and other equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf Punch, Counterpunch | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

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