Word: lid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glasses but provided instructions on three ways to make a pair. One way: "Dissolve an envelope of unflavored dessert gelatin in 3 oz. warm water. Heat in double boiler until dissolved. Add seven drops of food dye to a teaspoonful, and pour carefully onto enameled jar lid. Let harden 24 hours before peeling off ... Cut out two frames and cement your cutout filters between them...
...southwestern plains of the U.S., weather as hot and dry as a kitchen stove lid is an accepted part of life. West Texans like to say that when the great deluge flooded the world and Noah took to the ark, West Texas had half an inch of rain. But last week the Southwest was not in a joking mood. In Texas and parts of Oklahoma, New Mexico and Colorado, dry weather had turned to drought and drought was turning to disaster...
First came an enormous bronze "crater" (vase) weighing 350 lbs. On its handles were busts of gorgons intertwined with snakes. There were also sculptured horsemen, chariots and foot soldiers. The crater is probably Greek, but its conical lid with the statue of a robed woman is more archaic...
...after 18 hours. A better-planned revolt, once launched, might draw thousands of anti-Communist recruits and throw the country into a bloody civil war whose probable outcome, no matter who won, would be a return to dictatorship. Arbenz' strategy apparently is to try to sit on the lid and turn over his office four years hence to a hand-picked army successor who will carry on with his policies, Communists and all. Few Guatemalans have much hope that the stubborn President will ever see the Reds in their true color and break with them of his own accord...
When Thompson died at 48 (in 1907, of tuberculosis), his sole belongings were "a few old pipes and old pens lying in a tin lid" and a nondescript collection of clippings from the Daily Mail (e.g., "Mikado Airs on Japanese Warship-Amusing Scenes"; "The Milk Peril, What Hinders Reform"). But by then, thanks in good part to Editor Meynell (who lived on until 1948), he stood second only to William Butler Yeats as the foremost lyricist...