Word: lid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lid was off. Opposition politicos kept asking embarrassing questions, e.g., How was it that some 25 Buicks and Cadillacs had been imported duty-free in the President's name? El Khoury tried to suppress the scandals, but there weren't enough rugs in all Lebanon to sweep the dirt under. He kept losing supporters. Lebanese resented the nickname their country was getting: the Baksheesh State...
...good grey New York Times, which can pack more into a lead sentence than a Saratoga trunk should be expected to hold, sometimes can't get the lid closed. Last week a special dispatch from Johannesburg began: "Nationalist Party members of Parliament, sitting as the High Court of Parliament, handed down a ruling today setting aside the appeal court's invalidation of the Voters Act that removed colored (mixed blood) voters from the common electoral roll...
...that mean that OPS was getting ready to lift the lid all along the line? As his first move in OPS, Woods said he was going to make a big tour around the country to see if housewives really want price controls. Cynics guessed that the actual purpose of his tour was to sell the Administration's line blaming the Republicans for inflation, on the ground that they watered down the controls law. But Woods's predecessor would have none of that line. Without mincing words, retiring Price Boss Arnall had labeled the Administration's handout...
...told a group from Nebraska. "It is the basic belief that is important." To half a hundred Missouri delegates and alternates he used brisker language. "As long as we are in this thing," he said with a grin, "let's stick in it together and throw the stove lid at anything that gets in our way!" "I don't," he told men & women from Oklahoma, "make promises that a bottle of ointment will cure you of everything from poverty to flat feet...
Generators Down. Heavy reinforcements of planes and pilots were being dispatched from the U.S. to beef up Mark Clark's air strength. Although Washington was holding the figures under a security lid, Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop estimated that "the planned reinforcement will increase the overall strength by 40%, and the strength in jet planes by an even higher percentage." In Korea, General Van Fleet publicly surmised that more air pressure might force the Reds to sign a truce...