Word: lid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Starting afresh in his pursuit of shenanigans in labor and management, Arkansas' Senator John McClellan and his investigating committee last week lifted the lid on a loaded garbage can. The finding: the $50 million-plus refuse-hauling industry in New York City and nearby Long Island and Westchester County is in the hands of grubby crooks, notably a half-pint (5 ft. 1 in., 122 Ibs.) ex-fruit-peddler named Vincent James Squillante...
...only a ten-year supply of uranium-ore reserves at the projected 1959 production rate. Later he conceded that he does not know how much ore the U.S. will need for its military and economic security ten years from now. Yet uranium men contended that by putting the lid on concentrate output, the AEC will automatically stifle the hunt for ore. Johnson agreed that prospectors will need a fresh incentive to press the search. Said he: "Much of this incentive will have to come from confidence in the future market for atomic power...
Roll Back the Lid. It was 10 a.m. when Tomiko took her place in the busy waiting room. Within 15 minutes she was explaining to a doctor that she would like a double eyelid operation. Examination showed no reason why the girl should not have the operation (technically, blepha-roplasty). A nurse rubbed a local anesthetic ointment onto her eyelids. By 10:45 she was in the operating room...
With a small hypodermic, the surgeon injected a second anesthetic, procaine, into the upper eyelid. A nurse peeled the lid back. The surgeon gripped the muscle on the inside of the eyelid with pincers, pulled it out slightly, and clamped it to the skin near the roots of the lashes at the edge of the lid. Then, with hair-thin nylon thread, he stitched the muscle down. The eyelid was rolled back, covered with a cold cloth as the surgeon went to work on the other eye. Total operating time: five minutes...
...Indian performers exercise muscles not usually used by Western dancers. Hands are incessantly occupied with mudras, the eloquent and elegant Hindu language of the hands. Head, neck, facial muscles, eyes, even eyebrows contribute. To reveal only the whites, wide-eyed dancers conceal the iris under the upper or lower lid, and Shanta Rao can make either one of her eyebrows dance up her forehead while the other is kept immobile. Fourteen Eye Movements. Mangalore-born Dancer Rao functions from her painted soles through her tinkling, braceleted ankles, right up to the bejeweled crown of her coal-black hair. She began...