Word: lidded
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...saucepan lid the same as a quid...
Lunokhod is powered by solar cells that are apparently charged when it opens its clamlike lid to sunlight. One or more electric motors drive each of the eight spoked wheels independently. Like a remote-controlled toy car, it is steered by radio signals from earth, where monitors are able to see the terrain in front, behind and to the side of the rover in pictures transmitted from onboard TV cameras. To avert disabling accidents, Lunokhod has a number of safety features. It can, for instance, shut itself off if it begins to list dangerously, or if one of its wheels...
...comic book forms and advertising techniques. Sandwiched between the two principal stories, a full-page ad, layed-out with True Grit's promos, boasts. "Get both spending money and a real high!" The serious kid with shoulder satchels full of newspapers has been replaced by a freak holding a lid. The caption reads, "Percy Sibbin makes $500 a week and is always stoned!" Unfortunately, much of the remainder of the comic is more self-indulgent mockery than readable satire. In the lead story, "An Okie from Waskogie," Sodmind Redneck is drinking with the boys when acid somehow falls into...
...conference. Earnest, grave, mostly business-suited in the now-common European priestly fashion, the theologians gathered in Brussels' vast Palais des Congrès. The conference began peacefully enough. Then, when Schillebeeckx and his Concilium colleagues offered 28 rough-draft resolutions for the congress to consider, the lid came...
...came with a vengeance. Not only was the weather sweltering-temperatures hovered around 90 degrees all week long-but there was also a temperature inversion. Like a lid on a jar, a stagnant upper layer of warm air kept heated air below from escaping. And what air! The city's brisk winds stopped dead; the sky darkened. Oxidants, caused by the reaction of nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons to sunlight, became a major addition to the city's usual outpourings of sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide and tiny particles of lead, asbestos and other suspended matter. Day after...