Word: lid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dollop of gin are placed close at hand. According to ancient ritual, the beast must be plunged alive into a potful of boiling water; it invariably spends the better part of two minutes frantically trying to climb back out, and the cook needs a firm hand to keep the lid pressed down until it succumbs...
...salesmen, but the city is nevertheless pulling its sprawling self together. Traffic to the convention hall (near Chicago's stockyards) is being rerouted, streetcleaners are busier than they have been for years, and cops have orders to be polite for a few days. Police also announced that "the lid" would be clamped on in Clark Street's numerous strip joints, though Chicago lids have a way of not staying on much more firmly than a stripper...
...noise, they are ordinarily subject to strict police regulations. Only 15 may be on the streets at one time, no grinder may play within 300 meters of a colleague, and none may play after dark, or for more than ten minutes in the same spot. But last week the lid was off. For the second time in five years, university students organized a contest and 17 barrel organs were lined up in a big, open square in the heart of the city...
...Seta (1812), La Pietra del Paragone (1812) and William Tell (1829). Florence critics relished all of them, singled out the "scenic and choreographic spectacle" of Armida, hailed Ory as the "first musical comedy of the 19th century," called La Pietra "second only to The Barber of Seville." But the lid came off for Tell...
Test Case. In Houston, Mickey Martinez jumped into an undertaker's display coffin and lowered the lid, later explained to police: "The satin stuff on the top was nice and soft, but the bottom sure was hard...