Word: lids
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...genuine long-distance swimmers, the tank suit to put a lid on it is White Stag's Speedo. The all-nylon suit, worn by all but one of the 1968 Olympic Gold Medal winners, can even be had with a racing stripe down the side. Speedo wearers do not even have to make the crawl from Dover to Calais: the suit looks authentic enough to get there...
...mentor, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, who ruled for 31 years until his assassination in 1961. "He runs the country like a Florentine court," said a banker, implying that he is all too remote from the island's people and their aspirations. "The longer we postpone taking the lid off, the greater will be the explosion here." Others accused him of lacking imagination and concentrating on showcase projects instead of attacking basic problems such as poverty, educational shortcomings and land reform. In reply, Balaguer pointed to his record since his election in 1966, after the U.S. intervention. "Everything I promised...
...manager of motor hotels and graduate of the world's second most prestigious business school, when Sam Bollo, sitting at the head of the table nude but for a medallion on his furry breast and a feather in his black hair, when Sam Bollo had lifted the lid from the pumpkin and steam had escaped, he ladled up first off, with the other pungent insides already named, a whole soggy box of Crackerjacks...
...resulted in higher taxes and decreased purchasing power during the past five years. And although he is economically better off than his black counterpart, the white American is still struggling to maintain an adequate income in the face of rising costs and the efforts of corporations to clamp a lid on wage increases. His economic advantage over the black man does not result from any form of mutual antagonism. It results from racist hiring practices and income differentials imposed from above...
...point out that Libya could probably have purchased its jets in Moscow without having to agree to one important condition stipulated by Paris: that the planes cannot be used in any offensive action against Israel. Furthermore, Pompidou is convinced that no amount of arms rationing will successfully keep the lid on the Mideast war. In an interview with TIME Paris Bureau Chief William Rademaekers before his departure for the U.S., Pompidou declared: "I do not think that the role of countries that can effectively intervene is to try and apply the brakes, to limit the number or the capacity...