Word: lidded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiet cottage in the Florida Keys. The ten hours of film and a 620-page transcript of the whole interview, the first such portrait of an ex-President ever done, will become part of the Truman Library at Independence, Mo. For speaking freely, Truman asked only to put the lid (for his lifetime) on some 45 minutes of the conversation, covering half a dozen such questions as why he dragged his feet behind Adlai Stevenson in the 1956 campaign. From the rest, except for some locutions too salty for U.S. living rooms, Murrow and Co-Producer Fred W. Friendly...
...saddle after trying for 14 months without success to smash an ever-strengthening guerrilla revolt in Cuba's eastern mountains. Only the Dominican Republic's Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, 66, now playing host to exiled Pérez Jiménez and his crew, still keeps the lid clamped shut on his rich, thoroughly cowed little island nation...
...lid blew off a fortnight ago when Preston Young, 16, a Negro pupil at Central Senior High, punched Richard Powers, 28, a gym teacher. Outraged Superintendent Hazlett last week prodded the board of education into expelling Young for the rest of the year, asked for the right to expel any disorderly pupil for up to a full semester. Hazlett called for the names of juvenile extortionists and weapon carriers, planned to make their parents "answer to the central office why their child should stay in school...
...calls for holding taxes where they are now, for tilting up temporarily the 275-billion-dollar lid on the national debt, for a nickel stamp on letters, and for 83,000 fewer men in military uniform...
Last week Chairman Lewis Walker of the Teachers College Board got an anonymous letter, warning: "The lid is about to blow off at Western Illinois. The faculty is ready to walk out." If the lid does blow, the board will finally have to step in with the full-scale investigation that the faculty has long wanted...