Word: lid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steel bands and punched out a lock to get through the two steel doors guarding the third floor room which housed the stolen jewels. To get into the display safe which housed the valuable jewels they had to jimmy and sledge-hammer their way through a steel and concrete lid and two inches of display glass. The burglars also smashed their way into seven other display cases. The whole job must have taken them at least three hours, but they were not discovered during that time by any museum employee...
...countdown, but this time there was nothing we could worry about for the last two days before the flight. You preload, and that's the end of it." Titan II, like the much smaller, solid-fuel Minuteman, will be placed in underground silos covered with a thick lid to resist attack. After it gets the command to go into action, it can be fired in a few minutes, perhaps a few seconds. But since it is thin walled (its liquid-fuel system enables it to use its weight elsewhere), it needs special protection from exhaust gases, which can contain...
...they went to Eisenach, the last railway stop before the West German border. The train pulled in, and the two rushed up to the platform, got an empty compartment. Bernd opened the suitcase; Maria assumed the prenatal position-head on chest. He carefully forced back her shoulder, got the lid closed by pressing it down with his knee. She gasped with pain as he belted the two straps. Then he moved the suitcase-which had been punctured in several places to give Maria air-into the corridor and returned to his compartment. Police and border guards, working methodically through...
...continues to offer it, and she suddenly takes the canteen and drinks gratefully. She returns it to him, and as she speaks, he is occupied with swallowing some water, sighing appreciatively, wiping his mouth and the lip of the canteen, screwing on the lid...
Find the Moon. Next day another series of commands streamed out across space. C.C. & S. listened, acknowledged and memorized. When the "execute" command came, Ranger turned the lens of its TV camera toward the approaching moon. The lid that protected the lens from micrometeorites was swung away; the camera was turned on and given 30 minutes to warm up. At another memorized command from C.C. & S., it started shooting video pictures of the moon about 30,000 miles away. At this point Ranger III made its first error: it did not hold its dish antenna pointed steadily at the earth...