Word: lid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration has made no secret of its dislike of Gaddafi. Secretary of State George Shultz recently called the Libyans "troublemakers in the world" and declared some months ago, "We have to put Gaddafi in a box and close the lid." But how? The U.S. has already virtually severed diplomatic relations, banned Libyan oil imports and restricted the travel of Americans to Libya (though 2,000 still live and work there). The Administration was hopeful that the events in London would lead reluctant Western allies to take similar measures against the recalcitrant Gaddafi...
Harvard put the lid on the Bulldogs in the final 1600-meter relay. Tom Quinn's stellar third leg put the Crimson in a lead they never relinquished...
...lid is slowly being pried off of "taboo" issues such as rape, incest, and child molestation, due to growing media coverage and increasingly alarming statistics on sex-related crimes: For example, according to Time, "in a survey of 930 women in San Francisco, 38 percent of the group said they had been sexually abused by age 18, and 28 percent by age 14. In a study of 521 Boston-area families, nearly 10 percent said their own children had been victims of sex abuse or attempted abuse...
...life, Andropov was a figure far removed from the world of average Soviets. The tears of distraught family members made him seem more human in death. Before the lid could be closed on Andropov's coffin, his wife bent to kiss his pale forehead. She tenderly caressed his sparse hair and then kissed him again. She had behaved at that moment of grief as any Russian woman would. For many Soviets witnessing the scene on their television screens, that moving glimpse of private pain seemed to cut through the hundreds of thousands of words that spewed forth in official obituaries...
...fact, the entire team worked in spurts, moving into an unknown Twilight Zone, then beaming back to Marvel. While Harvard fans displayed "Go For It. Crimson" signs and kept waiting for their squad to blow the lid off the Bruins' home gym, the Crimson seemed a bit listless after its victory at Yale the night before. But as tried as the squad appeared, they did muster the energy to keep Brown in the contest...