Word: seales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, President Harry Truman pulled out a sheet of his pale green personal stationery and penned a personal letter. A little later, a White House functionary brought in the antiquated equipment necessary for affixing the Presidential Seal. He lit a stick of red sealing wax, allowed some to drip on the envelope and quickly pressed it with a heavy, wrenchlike instrument...
This week, Foreign Minister Herbert Morrison rose in the House of Commons, announced what amounted to a triumph for Conciliator Harriman: the British government was prepared to send a new oil mission to Teheran, headed by Lord Privy Seal Richard Stokes, hard-hitting Socialist industrialist and Minister of Raw Materials...
...control promised to be precarious at best. "The new government will be balanced on a razor's edge," said the Irish Times. But for the moment his triumph was secure. When the new Taoiseach left the Parliament to get his seal of office from Ireland's President O'Kelly, it took 20 of Dublin's finest to hold back the cheering crowds...
...partisans hustled voters through the driving rain to polling booths. Voting proceeded smoothly. The only untoward incident: in four of Rangoon's 106 polling places, poll watchers threw out all ballots because of a technical oversight-election officials had failed to stamp them with the required rhinoceros seal...
Pretend to Be a Seal. The first thing Father Buliard did in Coppermine was to learn Eskimo-an accomplishment, he remarks happily, that gave him a great advantage over his Anglican rivals. He also learned how to put together a reasonable facsimile of a snowhouse, how to catch a seal (wriggle up to it, crawfish-style, pretending to be a seal yourself), and how to alleviate snow blindness by a few searing drops of kerosene in the eyes. He accustomed himself to the Eskimo menu, even to such delicacies as owl meat, scorpionfish liver, frozen raw fish, warm blood, seal...