Word: seals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drawings took Thurber no time at all-a fact that he tried to hide from Ross-and he covered the walls of Tim Costello's Third Avenue saloon in 90 minutes, for drinks. He claimed to belong to the "pre-intentionalist" school. His famed seal-barking cartoon began, he recalled, with a fine seal. But the rock he tried to draw under the seal looked hopelessly like a bed, and one thing led to another...
...criticism, he committed suicide in 1930. Stalin astounded Party hacks by decreeing that he was Russia's "best and most talented" poet, adding ominously: "Indifference to his work and memory is a crime." Independent-minded young Russians think none the better of Mayakovsky for Stalin's seal of approval. But they remember the unfinished last poem in which he derided the regime's "gang of self-seeking poets and rogues." Communist propaganda, wrote Mayakovsky, "sticks in my throat...
...salt. From the shaft's bottom, a 1,116-ft. horizontal tunnel leads into the salt and curves back on itself in a giant hook. At the tip of the hook a small (5-kiloton) bomb will be exploded in December. If all goes well, the explosion will seal the horizontal tunnel by collapsing the hooked end, and it will leave a cavity partly filled with molten salt...
...circular tunnel and the experimental hall are shielded by concrete walls ten feet thick. To avoid radioactive dangers, doors seal automatically and a 40-ton crane operated by remote control moves equipment...
...certainly marvelous how such a bundle of nerves can pull in the money.") Christened Harry Sinclair Lewis and usually called Hal or Red, he was a tall, skinny, ginger-headed man afflicted all his life with a badly blotched complexion that set the seal on his ugliness. His physical unattractiveness made his youth lonely and affected his character and work. In this long and lovingly detailed biography, Critic Mark Schorer suggests that his volatile temper, his insatiable hunger for male companionship and female company, his manic alcoholism, his prankishness and exhibitionism, even his short and abortive acting career late...