Word: seales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smith brings the bluff off past June, the British should seek a mandate from the UN to escalate the sanctions. One possible means would be to extend the sanctions to include areas now aiding the Smith regime--South Africa, Portuguese Mozamzique, and Angola. The British might also attempt to seal off the borders by military intervention...
...reason for the outcry was ethnic. Negroes, Puerto Ricans and other minority groups generally approved of Garelik's promotion, though as the first Jew in memory to become chief inspector, he lacked the Hibernian seal of approval from the top-cop echelon. Another related controversy concerned the John Birch Society. At his first press conference, Leary said that policemen could be Birchers if membership did not conflict with their duties. This horrified the liberal Lindsay, whereupon Leary proclaimed that he was "repelled and nauseated" by Birch dogma and would forbid police membership in the society...
...cooperative, chosen because it would belong to the Eskimo and because it was the most simple and therefore the most comprehensible of marketing systems. Even so, the concepts often boggled minds whose exercises in community action had never gone much beyond the equitable dissection of a harpooned seal. Introduced to the unfathomable mysteries of a credit union, for example, the Eskimos called it qikartissivik, "The place where the money is stopped...
...were running 18 coops, shipping as far south as New York such marketable commodities as frozen char (a delicious fish that tastes like salmon), waterproof sealskin boots, Eskimo handicraft and art. In the Eskimos' own stores, delicacies that they canned themselves-muk-tuk (whale skin), corned and roasted seal meat, sweet-and-sour whale, walrus flippers vinaigrette-now move as briskly as canned ham loaf...
...Seal Beach, Calif...