Word: lidded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only man . . . with more suits than Hart Schaffner & Marx," rolled with the attack. He realized, he said, that some "indefensible things" had been published by columnists, "and I myself have sinned. I'd like to forget a number of things." But alert columnists have kept the lid on graft, have "been able ... to give to newspapers some things which they would not otherwise...
...heat was on in Cambridge and adjacent areas yesterday, as fear of Kafauver Committee repercussions forced local bookmakers to put a firm lid on their activities...
...boiling pot will blow its lid off if it is too tight," said a Spaniard explaining Barcelona's recent cost-of-living strike riots (TIME, March 19). Last week the lid was tightly clamped back on Barcelona...
While Mao Tse-tung's armies took a mauling in Korea, his commissars were having trouble with the home front. Helped by the diversion of Red troops and resources northward, anti-Communist guerrillas had rattled the lid off south China. Lately, in the curious way which Communist governments often take to advertise their difficulties, the Reds described the situation...
...country switched off, begged the public to save gas & electricity, suspended 3,854 passenger trains. Philip Noel-Baker, Minister of Fuel & Power, pleaded in a radio address: "Put the kettle on before, not after, you light the gas. Don't boil more water than you need. Keep the lid on the saucepan while you're cooking. Try to use your electric heater for half an hour less every...