Word: lidded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crowd's enthusiasm and several very hot Seahawk hands--especially those of Jamie Cianphelio--put the game officially out of reach. Before the three-quarter mark, the score stood at 70-39, with the lid sealed on the Crimson's first road loss of the year...
THREE ISSUES in the Cambridge City Council race should be foremost in voters' minds Tuesday. First, rent control must be preserved. Second, the city must keep a tight lid on the expansion of condominiums. And third, the five-year reign of City Manager James L. Sullivan and his professional administration must be affirmed and strengthened...
This early piercing of the OPEC lid came despite an attempt by Saudi Arabia the largest oil producer, to keep the lid on' Last July, Saudi officials announced that they would raise their daily oil production during the remainder of 1979 from 8 5 million to 9.5 million bbl. Not so long ago, such an increase would have prevented unilateral price hikes. No longer. The rules of the oil game have changed...
Carlo disappeared into the back room for a moment, then returned with an ordinary shoebox. He opened the lid and removed a hideous pair of black and white pumps. But these were not an ordinary pair of black and white pumps; both were left feet, one had a right angle turn with separate compartments that pointed the toes in impossible directions. The other shoe was six inches long and was curved inward like a rocking chair with a vise and razor blades to hold the foot in place...
...painting, almost literally an opposition of fire and ice, is comparatively rare in Chardin's output. Generally his still lifes declare themselves more slowly. One needs to savor the Jar of Apricots, for instance, before discovering its resonances, which are not only visual but tactile: how the tambour lid of the round box accords with the oval shape of the canvas itself and is echoed by the drumlike tightness of the paper tied over the apricot jar; how the horizontal axis of the table is played upon by the stuttering line of red-wineglass, fruit, and painted fruit...