Word: lid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peter's to align the lid of the Pope's lead coffin, all Rome was humming, too, in preparation for the suspense and mystery of electing the 262nd Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church...
...Trlifaj and J. Cermak, Czechoslovakia.) Much more interesting to the public was the general feeling among the scientist delegates, as expressed in interviews or press conferences. The first Geneva conference, 1955, was notable for unaccustomed fraternization between scientists from Communist and non-Communist countries. It also took the secrecy lid off the technology of fission reactors that burn uranium or other heavy elements...
...natural cacophony. Antisubmarine-warfare hands are trained to differentiate the sound of a sub from that of a destroyer or a rowboat. But they must also learn that a school of shrimp sounds like fish frying, that sea robins cluck, that the white whale creaks like the lid on Davy Jones's locker, that the eel makes a zizz like water on a hot stove, and the whistling, jocular porpoise makes enough noise to give any sonarman a headache. Most deceptive of all for Thach's sound detectives are the pings, for all the world like those from...
...Soto will have a forward-sloping hood, lower front fenders, new grille, bumpers and trunk lid. Dodge, Chrysler and Imperial will get much the same "dart" treatment...
Four U.S. engineers arrived to try to improve Jordan's incredible desert railroads (of 21 locomotives, only five are operable) and to devise a method of speeding up the unloading of cargo at the shallow-draft port of Aqaba. For the British, who are holding the lid tight on this boiling cauldron, the situation is becoming critical. Each possible move seems to create more problems than it solves...