Word: lid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lyndon Johnson is usually quieter at this time of year because he is a man who likes to preserve his options, but this year the lid is tighter than ever -probably because the options are fewer and harder to choose among. Last year, Cabinet members and top Administration brass headed straight from their ranch-house sessions to brief reporters on spending plans or to tell the press of the President's thinking on the progress and problems of the year past...
Atop the Johnson library is a projecting lid with a loggia that looks out from a suite reserved for the President himself. Indeed, part of the bait that the University of Texas offered L.B.J., who says that after he leaves the presidency "there is no place I'd rather be than on the campus," was the deanship of a new school of public service to be located in the ancillary building. The lid also contains studies that ring a sunken patio; scholars will descend into the bookstack from above while the public climbs up from below...
After a brief harangue, Kim said: "I am a man of action, not words, and with action I will hand out a judgment." Whipping the lid from the can, Kim dashed over to the row of ministers seated beside the rostrum and poured the contents over their heads. It was human excrement...
...long the lid will stay on the troubled Dominican Republic. Since Dictator Rafael Trujillo died in a fusillade of assassins' bullets in 1961, the country has had four coups and seven governments. Thus on past form alone, the country's new President Joaquín Balaguer, 59, could not be expected to last very long. But last week, after his first 21 months in office, some of the cynics who had predicted his early downfall were having second thoughts...
...only veteran on the team was Dennis ("The Menace") Ralston, 24, who ranks No. 1 in the U.S. and plays like it when he can keep a lid on his temper. Last week the only menacing thing about Dennis was his game. Mixing riflelike base-line shots with lobs, he ran Mexico's Star Rafael Osuna, 27, into the ground with a four-set victory...