Word: seales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country's hour of peril, with Chinese Communist invaders lodged deep in the Himalayan upland, to witness the coronation of the 14th Dalai Lama, the reincarnated Buddha of Mercy. Hours of prayer and ritual reached a climax when the adolescent god-king accepted the great jade seal of supreme Tibetan authority on which is engraved the motto "Victory in All Directions...
...Usuard, a Benedictine monk, wrote his Martyrology in the 9th Century, at the instigation of Charles the Bald. * Last such definition, in 1854: the dogma of Mary's Immaculate Conception (that she was conceived free of original sin). † An official papal document named for the lead seal, or bulla, which papal and royal documents carried in the early Middle Ages...
...should turn up at the Hotel des Princes a few minutes later but Mrs. Posket, in search of the boy's godfather. She wants to persuade him to seal his lips on the date of the christening (which would reveal her own age). As night be suspected, the situation is fruitful; the play does not suffer from a slow plot...
...lone California Elephant Seal stands at the right of the entrance to the Zoological Museum. His epitaph reads: "the species has been reduced through persecutions, as it yields rich oil . . ." A Siberian Sea Otter looks out from the next glass case. "This species is now on the verge of extinction at the hands of the fur hunters...
...around the self-imposed Industry Production Code. Just as Melanesians have elaborate taboos against incest (punishable by death), so does Hollywood have an equally important taboo against "any reference to the biological nature of man or other animals." Violators are not killed, but are refused the Code's seal of approval, "a form of business suicide." Moviemakers continually revolve in a vicious circle with the Code office minutely censoring "dialogue for suggestions of sex while the studios continue to accent the sexiness of their stars...