Word: lid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand, another suggestion is being discussed in Kuomintang liberal circles: the U.S. should get into Chinese politics deeply enough to set the Kuomintang house in order-or else the U.S. should get out. The Kuomintang has the military power to preserve itself now, but it cannot forever hold the lid on 400,000,000 unhappy people. If the Americans cannot somehow bring a liberal revolution within the Kuomintang, then it had better clear out. China's Communists are not likely to be halted in their revolutionary tracks by anything but a good government...
...engineers' & scientists' applause included a good many amateur and professional attempts at parody of their own professional language. Wrote some technicians stationed at the U.S. Army Air Corps' experimental station at Wright Field, Ohio: ". . . Now that the lid is off, we would like your readers to know that since 1944 no Army plane has taken off without a midget encabulator securely latchetted to the semi-radical baltrop of its estrangulated wickerbill...
...most things, Canada was influenced by what went on south of the border. Price rises in the U.S. had exerted an upward pull on Canadian prices. Now Canadians uneasily eyed the proposed emasculation of OPA. If that happened, they would have an even harder job keeping the lid on inflation in Canada...
...House-passed bill technically maintained the breath of life in OPA for another nine months. Actually it had preserved the shell but extinguished the soul. Unless drastic alterations were made in the Senate, OPA would soon be required to lift the price lid on nearly every cost-of-living item except rent...
...death stepped closer, Unjebanenjebet was at last obliged to accept a hand-me-down: a roomy, elegant coffin of pink granite which had obviously belonged to a high priest of Amun. Then death came. Embalmers laid the General's linen-wrapped mummy in the secondhand sarcophagus, put the lid on, and built the coffin into its niche in the royal tomb...