Word: lid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pile of sand. They sprinkled several shovelfuls of sand on his face and chest, then, as the interpreter announced over the microphone that the coffin was completely filled with sand (the lights were funereally dim, and the people on the stage could hardly see, let alone the audience) the lid, which warped up in the back leaving an inch crack facing away from the audience, was put on the coffin, making it "air tight and filled with suffocating sand...
...home, the Administration moved with swift precision to reverse the political and economic philosophies of 20 years. Budget Director Joseph Dodge put a lid on new hiring and set each major department to work on a downward revision of costs-with a deadline of March 2 for action. And Eisenhower himself began the job of cutting away controls from the U.S. economy, confident that in a free economy the U.S. would find the source of more vigor, strength and energy for the cold...
...hollow. Next morning the men came back with truck jacks, wedged them under the protruding edges of the slab that topped the altar. All day and all night they worked at the jacks. By morning they had raised the slab some two feet, only to find another lid fitted flush in the top of the block. With crowbar and ropes, they managed to lift the second lid...
Decentralization. In Raleigh, N.C., when police started to give Robert L. Williams a ticket for driving his newly purchased used car without a license, the headlights fell off, the trunk lid fell off, and the bumper fell...
...name on a piece of paper. If you wanted to put up an awning, you'd have to explain it to him for half an hour; tell why you wanted it on this side of the building instead of some other place." Avery also put the lid on wages, and steadfastly refused to grant such incentives as the liberal pension and profit-sharing plans of Sears ("uneconomical" is Avery's word for such frills...