Word: lid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CRIMSON'S powerful diamond aggregation last Saturday lifted the lid on its 1964 softball season by applying a heavy coat of shellack on the eager but inept refugees from the offices of the Year-book...
Pent-Up Odor. Obviously fearful that to call Jenkins before the Rules Committee might be to embarrass seriously the Democratic Administration, the Democrats voted down the Republican effort. In so doing, they chose to clamp down a lid on the official investigation of Bobby Baker rather than let it run its full course. Conceivably, there could be nothing more to it than was already known. But in putting on a lid, the Democrats were running a risk; if that lid ever blew off, the pent-up odor could be overpowering...
...hardly a jazz musician playing who is not in some way indebted to him. On his tours last year he bought a silk skullcap in Tokyo and a proper chapeau at Christian Dior's in Paris; when he comes home to New York next month with his Finnish lid, he will say with inner glee, "Yeah?I got it in Helsinki." The spectacle of Monk at large in Europe last week was cheerful evidence of his new fame?and evidence, too, of how far jazz has come from its Deep South beginnings. In Amsterdam, Monk and his men were greeted...
...customer's own (presumably stubby) ones, will last for a minimum of two or three weeks. They should be applied by professionals (Revlon specializes in the service). The "streetwear" length costs $10, the longer versions close to $20. More common are the strip eyelashes, which adhere to the lid for only a day and a half at a wearing but can be used and reused. The most realistic, and currently most popular, are made of human hair (imported from England and France), but they must be applied-with paste-by a mighty deft hand. Average cost: $6. Installation...
...second hospital, the widowed and triply bereaved mother was eventually allowed to see her battered surviving children. Nancy, 9, had (among other injuries) a deep gash over her eye. Says Mrs. Gilliland: "I noticed that her eyelid was cut, and I wondered whether there was an eye under that lid. Then I remembered our plan...