Word: lid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feet long by three wide, in which the laborers locked up their tools at night; and it suggested to me that every man who was hard pushed might get such a one for a dollar, and . . . get into it when it rained and at night, and hook down the lid, and so have freedom in his love, and in his soul be free...
...everywhere were "doing it," while those adroit with their hands were apparently "making it." For a full year, Dewitt drove, searching for this priceless commodity, pausing only to read a passage from Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance (no help for a busted crankcase) and maybe pop a lid...
...paid $24,000 for the Holt job. "Damn," says Reuben Frost, "will all this be in the papers?" Not a chance. For Frost, retired Wall Street lawyer and the dance company's board chairman, is also friends with N.Y.P.D. Detective Luis Bautista, who promises to "keep the lid on" until the case is solved. The pair met in Haughton Murphy's first novel, Murder for Lunch. In their second encounter, the Princeton-educated attorney and the Puerto Rican- born cop blend culture and crime as expertly as the bartender at Frost's private club mixes martinis...
...that O'Donnell's 1 1/2- hour presentation was "incoherent." At one point, Yunich reports, O'Donnell volunteered that he had been "kicked out of" Columbia Business School and thus had a weak grasp of finance. Says Yunich: "We couldn't figure out whether this person had flipped his lid or not." O'Donnell says he was merely passing on Claremont's unsolicited buy-out proposal and had thus done nothing wrong...
...taking a different tack to haul his economically and spiritually exhausted nation out of the quagmire. Most notably, the ramrod-straight Polish army general, who has lately tried to soften his austere image by mingling with factory workers and common folk, now seems prepared to pry loose the lid that clamped shut on critics of his regime after the military crackdown five years ago. Indeed, the Polish leader admitted last week that some actions recently taken by his own officials "were mishaps, like an elephant in a china shop...