Word: lid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Kennedy blew the lid off the Cuban affair, Khrushchev had to scramble out backwards. The German question was never resolved. For once, America had been firm: but whereas in the past, firmness would have produced material rewards, in 1962 the U.S. pushed the world to the brink of the apocalypse and came out with little to show for it. If Ulam is right, and the Russians were after a treaty, we might all be better off had the ploy worked. The only beneficiary was Kennedy's prestige, and an assassin's bullet the following year made that gain negligible...
...With the lid off, newspapers that the Government had temporarily stifled quickly resumed their revelations. Other publications-and even a Senator -added to the unprecedented avalanche of classified documents and analysis (see following story). Yet the court's public brevity and restraint only masked intense personal differences among the Justices over the grave issues. These divisions emerged in the rare determination of all nine Justices to write their own, sometimes emotional, opinions...
...eight Lockheed antisubmarine planes to Brazil because they might be used to apprehend U.S. fishing vessels inside the 200-mile territorial limit just proclaimed by the Brazilian government. But Administration staffers have made clear that were it not for fear of an explosive reaction in Congress, the arms lid would be off altogether. Meanwhile Latin American countries can buy most basic U.S. military equipment, including trucks, radio gear and small arms...
...time Councillor Crane got up to give the main speech of the evening most of us had been eliminated on earlier rounds. I must confess to missing Crane's explanation of his tin can lid necklace but I felt I had an excuse. The 125th centennial dinner was my only chance to relive the myth of former CRIMSON city editors who used to write their council stories drunk after a night at Igo's. Next week it would be back to the issues...
...dead, dying or extinct. It is undergoing a rebirth, starting over again from its internal, self-generating life force: a rebirth, going over our history, finding out where we went wrong. New people will arise to solve the problems of the second generation of the revolution. The cosmic lid is back on the pressure cooker...