Word: lid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some New Englanders, of course, spoke up for the President. Bruce Callahan, an engineer from Lee, Mass., declared: "Nixon acted wisely in keeping the lid on the whole thing. If he had shot off his mouth when he first learned of it, he might have impaired the cases of a lot of people who were going to stand trial." But negative sentiment was stronger. Said Morgan James, a telephone worker in Boston: "If he was concerned with the country, he would do what Willy Brandt did in Germany and resign for the good...
...what effect is unclear: Umberto has stated that the contract makes it impossible for Fiat to operate at a profit. The award will raise labor costs 11.5%, on top of a 17% hike last year. Meanwhile, government regulations have clamped a lid on the prices that Fiat can charge, and its auto sales are down by as much as 45% because of apprehension over the energy situation. Even before the award, the company had slipped about $30 million into the red last year, its first loss in recent history...
...fewer than 45 conspiratorial acts were cited in concise paragraphs that undoubtedly will be buttressed by extensive evidence, and sharply assailed by defense lawyers, in future trials. Those curt recitations of specific acts for the first time detailed the chronology of an increasingly desperate effort to keep the lid on the scandal. Free of all the testimonial contradictions and denials that have so confused the complex affair, the indictment included these overt acts...
...page booklet called Your Child Starts School and a 28-page manual with the remarkable title Terminal Behavioral Objectives for Continuous Progression Modules in Early Childhood Education. Says School Board Member James Jennings, who labeled the whole package a "monster": "Seventy percent of the parents will never raise the lid on a cover with a title like that...
...People go to the movies for three reasons," Friedkin says, "to laugh, to cry, or to be frightened." But The Exorcist is too framed to be frightening, too mechanical for tears; the only laughter it triggers is defensive. The movie puts a tight lid on your ability to think or feel. It won't let you get close enough to care about it--it is always on the attack. Little Regan just gets filthier and filthier and when she's exorcized the movie has to end because it took all its bang from the fake effects Regan gets so foul...