Word: seales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fritchey and Publisher Stern. The most disappointed man in the committee room was undoubtedly Senator A. O. Rappelet. Legislative Clown Rappelet had brought along a huge balloon, a ball and four plastic fish, but the chairman never gave him the floor or the chance to put on his trained-seal...
Johnnie's mechanic assured him that if his engine could hold up for the first 50 miles everything would probably be all right; the heat should seal it tight for the rest of the race. Johnnie Parsons felt that he could not afford to nurse his car along for all of those 50 miles. On the ninth lap, he rammed the foot throttle down and skittered into the lead, past Veteran Mauri Rose, three-time winner of the race, who pounded along doggedly in Johnnie's exhaust trail-a nauseous compound of burned benzol, alcohol and 100-octane...
...honor of "50 years of long and faithful service," James Hankins was presented with a plaque, a chest of silver, two purses collected by fellow employees and alumni, a gold watch and chain. For the wall outside the dining hall there was a big bronze plate with the academy seal and James's name below it. Said Head Chef Hankins, who intends to stay on at P.M.A. as long as his big capable hands are nimble : "The Lord has always blessed me to work for fine people...
...Scottish moors to the Salisbury Plain, "creeping like a criminal," he says, to capture the call of the grass warbler. Badgered by such background noises as airplanes, trains, barking dogs and high winds, he has triumphantly recorded the moorland cry of the greenshank and the "singing" of the seal on the spray-splashed rocks off the Pembrokeshire coast. He is postponing his retirement at least until he can get on wax the elusive stone curlew and the long-tailed...
Worldly Wise Man. By deserting the Boers' historic trek and devoting half his book to life among the Matabele, Author Abrahams sacrifices continuity but hones both sides of a worthy theme: men of all races are brothers who seal their own doom when they resort to violence. "It is not only our people who are in darkness . . . who are made drunk by words and blood," declares a Matabele wise man with philosophical worldliness. "It is so everywhere, among all the nations . . . So mourn not . . . for the Matabele. If you must mourn, mourn for our world that is in darkness...