Word: lid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Newton was quick to tally in the second period, but Steve Washburn then took up the cause, driving in one on an assist from Art Lee. Hamlen poked in another to make the score 3 to 2 and put the lid on further threats. Key's shot in the final period froze the score...
...part to the enlarged veteran complement. Servicemen's threats have been inured to such potent potions as "jungle juice" and the high concentrations achieved by amateur distillers with fermenting fruit in closed gasoline tins. Such concoctions passed the "pressure purity test" when they blew off the sealed lid...
...DOMINION Off with the Lid...
Reinforcements are being added to the usual lines of defense, he added, but he clamped the lid of silence on the location of his strong points and the precise nature of his special strategy...
Other Democratic bosses also heard the voters' voice. Chicago's Ed Kelly, once thumpingly in favor of clamping on the price lid, put an ear to the ground. Even Chicago was out of meat, and some 40,000 unemployed packinghouse workers wanted to get back to work. Ed rushed to Washington, redder than a cop's undershirt, to join National Chairman Bob Hannegan and members of the Democratic Party's executive committee at a chicken lunch. What, they asked, could be done...