Word: seales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months, Nigeria's federal government had been trying to take Port Harcourt, and getting nowhere. When it sent boats in from the southwest, they got lost in the mosquito-infested mangrove swamps. To seal off the southeast, the Biafrans pumped a continuous stream of crude oil into the Bonny channel and set it permanently ablaze. To guard against aerial attacks, they mounted heavy artillery atop the city's tallest buildings, and drove barbed stakes into open fields as protection against paratroopers. They even put nozzles on oil pipelines, converting them into instant flamethrowers. As a result, the Nigerian...
John Anderson, a fired-up Eli sophomore, handed Jarvis his second singles defeat of the year, 6-4, 7-5. "The Rock" never really found his game and committed several critical fluffs to seal his own doom...
...like these, a policy that insists on "balanced" television presentations is at best illogical. As in its decision not to publish J. D. Watson's The Double Helix, the University is confusing an expression of opinion coming from this campus with a statement of policy bearing the official Harvard seal...
There's a Tiger loose in the streets. The moan (of the engine) gets drowned out in its turn by a booming exhaust note that someone ought to bottle and seal as pure essence...
...last, the inevitable caught up with Oakland. The scoreboard clock read only three minutes to play when Chicago's Bobby Hull swooped in from left wing and scooped up the puck. Whoosh! he flashed across the Oakland blue line. Wham! he absorbed a brutal check from Seal Defender George Swarbrick that seemed to stagger him. Hull's shoulders sagged, his curved stick came up, and for the briefest instant, Swarbrick relaxed. Whap! Hull's stick slashed downward; 25 ft. away, Goalie Hodge could not even begin to react as the rock-hard rubber disk, traveling at better...