Word: seales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midst of the apocalyptic vision vouchsafed the apostle John on the island of Patmos, there occurs a moment of strange quiet: "And when the Lamb had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour." It is an interval of cosmic suspense; the hymns of the heavenly hosts are stilled for the only time in all eternity and the seven angels receive from God the seven trumpets which they soon will sound to wake the dead and resume the symbol-choked tumult. The heavens seem empty, and the old earth trembles before...
...week's end, Britain's chief negotiator, Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath, was about the only member of his team who seemed unruffled by the setback. "This is what negotiations are for," he shrugged. "We have been expecting difficulties to arise, and they have." But in a final 22-hour session aimed at breaking the stalemate, Heath's team failed to win the clear-cut safeguards it sought. With no hope of obtaining an overall accord in time for the Commonwealth conference in London next month, Britain and the Six adjourned the talks, agreed to try again...
...coup in recent months, another steps down this week in more auspicious circumstances. Colombia's Alberto Lleras Camargo. 56, the quiet Liberal statesman who has saved his violently partisan country from civil war, completes his full four-year term. When he leaves, he will pass on the seal of presidential office to a man who, under other circumstances, might be his most dangerous enemy−Guillermo Leon Valencia, a Conservative...
...From World War II work on antimalarial drugs, she suspected that this minor effect on adults might signal a more serious effect on the unborn. But not until nearly ten months later, in the last days of November 1961, did German reports link thalidomide with the European epidemic of seal-like, limbless babies...
...drug, marketed in many countries under a variety of trade names, has already caused an estimated 5,000 babies to be born malformed in Germany and almost 1,000 in Britain: infants without limbs or with stubby, seal-like flippers or with internal defects such as displaced or missing organs (TIME, Feb. 23). At least four cases of thalidomide malformation have already appeared in the U.S. and more may yet be confirmed, because American women got the sleeping pills overseas or from travelers.* (It has not been licensed for sale...