Word: lid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...transportation mania is the cult of the little car. The little car can be anything from an Austin to a Renault or Volkswagen (never a Hillman Minx, of course); it has unusual features, such as the engine being in back (which makes for question-provoking louvres where the trunk lid should be), or turn signals that point out from the door posts instead of blinking from the rear fenders, lending a quaint, Old World flavor. The real virtue of the little car, of course, lies just in its being little. The great amount of crowding necessary, and the uncomfortableness that...
...talks would "go a little beyond mere protocol," but if the strongmen made any agreement, they did not announce it. There is no political tension between the countries. Regardless of what they said, by merely meeting, the Presidents affirmed what every dictator who is trying to keep the lid on likes to know: the flanking nation is in understanding hands. "We are both military men," said Rojas Pinilla later. "We have the same problems and the same "enemies...
...stood with sinking heart in Berlin's Reichseisenbahnhofs-vorstandsamt (Station Master's Office). Across from him, icy, stone-faced officials jotted down the long list of damages inticed by his three small charges. Robert, Leon and Tzara. during the train journey from France ("1 Porcelain Washbasin with Lid, property of the Mittel-Europaeische Schlafwagen Gesellschaft. 1 Enamelled Notice-Plate marked VERBOTEN, property of the Preusfische Staats-Eisenbahm," etc.). Julius begged the little monsters: "Now if you will only be good a little longer, you'll be in your own nice beds with a glass of delicious...
...probably will be the first in the Cabinet to retire, possibly this summer or fall. But he will go not because of carps or criticism against him, but because of age and a desire to rest. As a military man, Ike understands Wilson's problem of holding a lid on the highly competitive services, and can see that he is doing it with better than average success. Wilson has buttressed civilian supervision of the armed forces, headed off Pentagon feuds, supervised a military arsenal that has changed more drastically in four years than at any other time...
...Author Charles Dickens visited Pittsburgh, held his ears and called the town "hell with the lid lifted." Over a century later. Author John Gunther passed through, held his nose and described it (in Inside U.S.A.) as "one of the most shockingly ugly and filthy cities in the world." Last week much-abused Pittsburghers looked around, held their breath, and i) heard plans for a null $12 million skyscraper for their bustling Gateway Center; 2) watched the barricades go up for a 17-story. $7,000.000, metal-sheathed monolith for Pittsburgh's H. K. Porter Co.; 3) got the designs...