Word: lidded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lid of the coffin rises. Inside are five words: THIS IS RESERVED FOR YOU. The sound track takes over. "Ladies and gentlemen, you are about to see a motion picture that may kill you. We guarantee free burial service to anyone who dies of fright...
...Lid to Jar. "We admitted our mistakes," roared Nikita (Hungarian Party Boss Janos Kadar, who served in Nagy's Cabinet and later assured his people that Nagy would not be punished, listened stolidly from his seat among the foreign delegates). "The Yugoslav leaders didn't. They have too little courage to tell their people they are responsible for this conflict. They say we falsify Marxism-Leninism. Then why has the U.S.S.R. had such great successes? Comrades, the lid does not fit the jar, as the saying goes. What success can the Yugoslav leaders, who call themselves Marxists, show...
...anniversaries, announced the Budapest executions on the fifth anniversary last week of that first satellite uprising-Russia's eastern European empire has been in a continual state of ferment, sometimes bubbling below the surface, sometimes , boiling over into open defiance. Convinced that Stalinist rigidity could not keep the lid on this pot forever, Stalin's successors tried to master the situation by easing up Moscow's pressure on the satellites. In one of history's most humiliating about-faces, Nikita Khrushchev weepingly repudiated Stalinism, paid court to Tito and gave gingerly acceptance to the doctrine...
...IMPORT LID will be hammered down tighter on West Coast. Pressure is mounting in Washington for cut in quotas because imports to area have fallen 30% to 35% below ceiling of 220,100 bbl. per day owing to recession in demand. At very least, individual quotas of major companies will be slashed to make way for new importers, who have applied to bring...
...describe the state of high nervous tension in which such a bust is done, Epstein tells how he first roughs in the shape with clay, moves in to observe the eyes including "the exact curve of the under-lid," defines the nostrils so that they seem to quiver with breath, moves on to the lips, cheeks and finally the shoulders and back until he feels "a trembling eagerness of life pulsate through the work...