Word: lid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...News correspondent; in Washington. In 1962, as the world was watching the rapidly escalating Cuban missile crisis, a Soviet intelligence official asked Scali to pass on to the White House a proposal to defuse the edge-of-Armageddon confrontation. President Kennedy then asked the newsman to keep a lid on the secrets he was privy to as unofficial go-between. Nobly, Scali did--passing up the scoop of a lifetime...
...when the trouble can begin. During late summer and fall, broad swaths of subtropical ocean can reach temperatures of 80øF or more. The warm, humid air above the ocean surface would tend to rise anyway, and when a low-pressure region drifts by, it's like taking the lid off a steaming pot. The air rushes upward, dumping its moisture and energy, which forces the winds to whirl ever faster. Meanwhile, down at the surface, more warm air rushes in to replace what's risen, and it shoots upward in turn. After a few days of this self-sustaining...
...Friday, Packwood issued a statement saying he had reviewed the woman's deposition and took "strong exception to her version of the event." The Senator added, "It's not in my nature to lob personal attacks, and I'm doing my best to keep a lid on my powder." Meanwhile, he has continued to deny rumors that he will soon end the Senate's ordeal by resigning. "I have found my colleagues willing to wait until the Ethics Committee is done and we see the report. They're much less inclined than the press to judge until they know...
...just amazed me the poise he had, the ability to maintain a lid on a room that could have blown up," says Michael H. Pine '95, a Hillel official and friend of Bragg's who was at the discussion...
...Israeli, I know that the citizens of Oklahoma City are going through. I've been there: in Tel Aviv, when the bus exploded; in Beit Lid, just outside my hometown, where families and friends were torn apart by terrorist attacks. I also know how the lives of Americans will now be different. America used to be the place where I could go for respite from such tensions. No longer...