Word: lid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...known ancient Maya cities. Found in tombs at a site dubbed Mundo Perdido in the Peten jungle of Guatemala, these funerary vessels depict the underworld gods and beasts that haunted the Mayas. One bowl rests on a turtle swimming in a painted, stylized underground sea. Rising from the lid is the symbol of resurrection, a long-beaked water bird...
...West Coast has been hardest hit, particularly the Los Angeles area. Says Detective John Clark: "We're keeping a lid on it, but that's about all." There are 422 gangs reported in the county, and they "are putting communities over the barrel of a gun," says Tom Garrison, an aide in the youth gang agency of Los Angeles. This "is a war zone." The Mexican Mafia and Nuestra Familia, both hatched in prison, have long been a problem. But now Monterey Park, a once placid community east of the city, is torn by Chinese thugs. Orange County, home...
...were ready to close the lid on the case of the Angel of Death forever. "When you imagine how Mengele himself would organize his own death," suggested West German Mengele-Hunter Katz, "this is the way he would do it. I can imagine him, a lone wolf sitting in his den and laughing at how the whole world believes it." However fanciful, the point was well taken. Even a positive identification of the Embu bones and a categorical verification of Mengele's presence in Brazil would not resolve all the uncertainties. Nor would the laying to rest of the body...
...then Koslowski pulled a single into left, picking up two RBI. Fortunately, before the visitors could engineer a comeback. Crimson third-baseman Lisa Rowning made the play of the day, to snap the lid on the victory...
...Griffiths' Allardyee is towering Gluttony, who constantly stuffs his face with chocolates, wafers, seal paines and even his beloved Betty And Normington's Lockwood is personified Snobbery, who looks and acts exactly like John Gielgud. At all times, these societal demi-gods keep their aristocratic buttocks firmly over the lid of Gilbert's private hell...