Word: lid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enthusiastic cries of "Gorbi! Gorbi!" but the reception remained calm. About 3,000 people gathered the next day in Alexanderplatz to demand government reform, the biggest such demonstration in East Berlin since 1953, but again the police managed to control the crowd. Officials were less successful in keeping the lid on demonstrations outside the capital: in Dresden and Leipzig violent clashes between protesters and police continued throughout the weekend...
...next to impossible to put a lid on Indiana (6-1-1), which shot fast and furious from all over the field...
Sweet are the uses of efficiency. One of the pleasures of this near perfect piece of reportage is the sense that both writer and subject waste little motion. Fighting the clock, the calendar and the fiscal year, Bauer needs more than his seed cap. A mechanic's lid, a diplomat's Homburg and a gambler's eyeshade would come in handy...
...chants of "Death to America!" filled the air as the helicopter touched down. Although barricades held most of the crowd at bay, the Guards were forced to make a frantic push past the outstretched hands to deliver the coffin to the grave site. At the last instant, the metal lid of the casket was ripped off, and the body was rolled into the grave, in keeping with an Islamic tradition that requires that the dead be interred in only a shroud. The grave was quickly covered with concrete slabs and a large freight container to prevent delirious mourners from exhuming...
Unwilling to offend large, politically powerful constituencies, Bush refused to tax costly, non means-based entitlement programs like Social Security or Medicare for the wealthy or to put a lid on popular tax breaks for the middle class, such as mortgage interest deductions, and instead urged a dramatic cut in the tax rate on capital gains...