Word: lid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...piece set of Wedgwood china ($800), an old telephone that "Henry Kissinger made several important calls on" ($15), some plastic table mats (25? each), some old birth-control pills (two for 5?) and a familiar object hung over the fireplace and labeled, "Historic second-hand toilet seat and lid used at one time or other by George McGovern, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Gore Vidal, Yevtushenko and Gloria Steinem. $50." "All this fancy stuff doesn't appeal to me any more," Barbara explained after netting $15,000. Her next appearance: a memoir entitled Laughing All the Way, to be published...
...Council and a Soviet offer to deploy its own troops, he managed to get it ratified by a majority of the General Assembly. U.N.E.F. was his most successful innovation. It served as the model for international forces in the Congo and Cyprus. It also more or less kept the lid on the Middle East for ten years...
...rasping voice occasionally cracks, but his part is that of a hard on personified to both sexes, and I can't imagine how else he'd be able to play it as written. Bernard Holmberg's Idiot is sufficiently strong to hold the production together, keeping the lid on a certain hermaphroditic unctuousness which is inherent in the role; and he does toss a mean epileptic...
Boxes figure large in his work; and each box, with its lid and compartments and sliding drawers, is a microcosm. At first one is seduced by the greeny blue, aquarium-like interior of Box 17 (Box C). Then the eye discerns the contents, wavering amid their reflections from the walls: a glass goblet filled with a bouquet not of flowers but of vicious glass shards; a morbified pink foot; a small geometrical plastic construction, reclining like a tiny fakir on a bed of nails...
...seemed closer than ever, the Dow Jones rose less than four points; the most plausible explanation that brokers could offer was that investors had largely discounted a settlement in advance. Brokers remain optimistic, agreeing with Spencer Trask & Co.'s Raymond F. DeVoe Jr. that the war "has kept a lid" on stock prices...