Word: seals
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...that the fighting would be confined to armies and that civilians would be safe. "I could not know that there would be tanks outside my apartment firing into Sarajevo," Kruno said. By the time the realization of danger set in, it was too late: tanks, guns and barricades would seal off Sarajevo for the next 43 months. The Oprhals, trapped inside their apartment, suffered a smaller-scale version of the city's long torment...
...born Nathan Birnbaum on New York City's Lower East Side, one of 12 children. By his teens he was doing anything he could to break into vaudeville, from trick roller-skating to performing with a trained seal. "Whatever type of act the booking agent was looking for," he recalled, "happened to be the type of act I did." He did comedy routines with a series of partners, changing his name with each new act--because, he claimed, the booker would never have rehired him if he knew...
...mistress Parker Bowles; his foghorn friend Nicholas Soames, Minister of State for the Armed Forces; and Mountbatten's daughter Patricia. Perhaps the person closest to him is his private secretary, Richard Aylard, whose influence is extensive and widely questioned. In truth, Charles has the survival smarts of a baby seal. Aylard urged the Dimbleby project on him; his idea seemed to be that to know the Prince was to love...
...deficiencies in spent-fuel cooling systems. They realized that a problem had been sneaking up on the industry: half a dozen serious accidents at different plants had caused some water to drain from the pools. In the worst of them, at Northeast's Haddam Neck plant in 1984, a seal failure caused 200,000 gal. to drain in just 20 min. from a water channel next to the fuel pool. If the gate between the channel and the pool had been open, the pool could have drained, exposing the rods and causing a meltdown. Says Lochbaum: "It was a near...
...Tommy Thompson reports that Engler, a notoriously hard bargainer, played "bad cop" on the Republicans' three-man negotiating team. He helped box the Democratic Governors into an agreement that could vex the Clintonites: it maintains the entitlement-trashing that appalls the Administration's liberal wing, but its Governors' seal of approval would make it excruciating for the President to veto any such legislation. It is the kind of product that could get its manufacturer tagged as a national figure...