And slowly, in that half-dark cellar, all alone, I lifted the lid.
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"CBS and Les Moonves have lifted the lid on a Pandora's box," he said.
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My fellow scientists and I lifted the lid, and you'll never guess what was inside.
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Mnuchin's comments came as White House officials lifted the lid on President Donald Trump's tax plan.
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Look at the situation like this: Gearbox lifted the lid on Borderlands 3 after five years of silence.
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Not long afterward she opened her eyes, lifted the lid from her coffin, sat up, and was alive again.
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But, one former British Vogue editor just lifted the lid on what it's really like to work at Vogue.
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When an agitated Jackson returned the box, he lifted the lid to reveal the bug we assumed would be inside.
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Lemonade stands as the album that lifted the lid on Beyoncé's notoriously private life and marriage to rapper and business mogul Jay-Z.
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He turned and crossed the hall into the bathroom and carefully shut the door and without turning on the light lifted the lid.
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REYKHOLT, Iceland — Standing in the mud of the Myvatn geyser field in northern Iceland, Kolla Ivarsdottir lifted the lid of her makeshift bread oven.
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Popping the top on his escape hatch, he lifted the lid of the bathtub to reveal a set of wooden stairs leading to a tunnel.
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The Royal Commission inquiry lifted the lid on widespread malpractice that put profits before customers, disregarded compliance obligations and encouraged misbehavior with conflicted bonuses and commissions.
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When I lifted the lid, the steam didn't rise — it flew up, and all the faces at my table turned damp, as if passing through fog.
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Yet as soon as I lifted the lid, the kids dived in, prying out the small books, each named for a different room in the house.
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Mobike, the Chinese bike-sharing company that raised $600 million last week, has lifted the lid on its plans to expand beyond rides and move into services.
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But when I lifted the lid and ran a finger over one skin-colored, silicone circle, I was immediately seduced by how smooth and supple it felt.
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When Inky the octopus lifted the lid off his own tank, slinked eight feet across the floor, and down a 164-foot-long drainpipe, he became famous.
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"Food is at the center of Persian culture; it's integral to everything," she said as she lifted the lid on a pot of rice fragrant with herbs.
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Mr Snowden's fans do not believe he did anything wrong at all: he simply lifted the lid on a rogue agency, risking his liberty on behalf of privacy everywhere.
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As Mr. Farage walked away from the small crowd he was addressing, Paul Crowther, 32, lifted the lid from his milkshake and doused Mr. Farage with the creamy drink.
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Now the company has partially lifted the lid on the secret project to reveal that the drone will take off for a test flight for the first time in 2026.
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When Mr. Migoya lifted the lid on the wobbly sourdough, to add bran and germ, an ancient smell wafted out: fermented grain, rich with perfume, high and sweet and alcoholic.
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Deadly clashes and protests have erupted following democratic reforms introduced by Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed since 2018, which lifted the lid on long-repressed ethnic tensions.
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Gearbox Software lifted the lid on Borderlands 228 during its (laggy) PAX East panel on Thursday, offering a first look at the long-awaited sequel in an extended, gameplay-packed trailer.
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But the greater freedoms have lifted the lid on long-repressed tensions between Ethiopia's many ethnic groups and Abiy has accused unnamed media figures of promoting ethnic interests over national unity.
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TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) - Airbus lifted the lid on one of the aircraft industry's worst-kept secrets on Thursday, revealing the scale of average discounts in the cut-throat global jet market.
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Like Microsoft, Sony has also lifted the lid on its PlayStation Store's Black Friday deals ahead of the day itself, offering a host of new and older games with some hefty discounts.
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A fellow defendant was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment over the attack, which lifted the lid on poisonous rivalries over roles, money and power at one of Russia's most prominent cultural institutions.
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He lifted the lid on what is claimed to be a web of financial crimes that mocked taxpayers and bankrolled Manafort's life of opulence -- featuring gilded mansions and an ostrich skin jacket.
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The S-1 also lifted the lid on the extent of Peloton's marketing spend, which increased by 114% ahead of its IPO in its quest to win over a young, affluent audience.
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"What we have is nothing more than a bunch of political bull-you-know-what," he said as he lifted the lid on a silver platter containing actual bull-you-know-what.
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J.C. Penney finally lifted the lid on its plans to downsize its fleet, telling investors on Friday that it would close between 130 and 140 of its stores over the next few months.
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According to the BBC, the archaeological team had lifted the lid by less than two inches but the stench was so overpowering that they had to abandon their efforts for an hour-plus.
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TOULOUSE, France, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Airbus lifted the lid on one of the aircraft industry's worst-kept secrets on Thursday, revealing the scale of average discounts in the cut-throat global jet market.
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Abiy, who came to power in 2018, has implemented sweeping liberal reforms which have won him international praise but also lifted the lid on long-repressed tensions between the country's many ethnic groups.
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That said, Donald Trump's candidacy and successful election lifted the lid on a whole array of deplorable, but surprisingly widely held beliefs in our country, ranging from white supremacy to denigration of the disabled.
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Donald Jr.'s half sister Tiffany, 22, who has just graduated college and rarely appears on the campaign trail lifted the lid on her father's personable side, calling him friendly, considerate, funny and real.
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Ms. Fineman had little sense of how her recipe might work, but in April she lifted the lid to find the makings of this marvelous exhibition nearly done: some 1,118 images, including 183 videos.
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Amazon lifted the lid on its drone delivery progress this morning when CEO Jeff Bezos tweeted a video of a successful package delivery in Cambridgeshire, a rural British town about 60 miles north of London.
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If you've been wondering what the deal is with Marvel's Avengers since publisher Square Enix lifted the lid on the 2020 game at E3 2019, here's your first official opportunity to see it from home.
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As the trial lifted the lid of the lobbying culture in Washington, it also emerged this week that Mueller has referred inquiries about several other lobbyists to the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.
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Chanel's latest show comes weeks after the French brand lifted the lid on its financial results for the first time in its 108-year history, revealing itself as one of the biggest luxury labels in the world by sales.
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LONDON (Reuters) - What began as a harrowing account of child abuse suffered by a former professional English soccer player last month has lifted the lid on what could be one of the worst pedophile scandals Britain has ever known.
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Nintendo has lifted the lid on the first downloadable content pack for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, showing off new items, armor, and outfits, as well as a new difficulty mode that will make the game's enemies tougher to beat.
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Jim Justice, a Democrat, strode into the Capitol rotunda here, denounced a series of budget cuts approved by Republican lawmakers and lifted the lid off a silver platter to reveal an aromatic pile of fresh bull manure atop a copy of the spending plan.
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Almost five years after Woodford lifted the lid on one of Japan's biggest corporate frauds, his former employer is claiming more than 264.5 million pounds ($643 million) from him and a former colleague, alleging they conspired to maximize their pension benefits by unlawful means, according to court filings.
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It's been over five years since NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden lifted the lid on government mass surveillance programs, revealing, in unprecedented detail, quite how deep the rabbit hole goes thanks to the spread of commercial software and connectivity enabling a bottomless intelligence-gathering philosophy of 'bag it all'.
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Le Canard Enchaine, which has lifted the lid on political shenanigans for decades, reported that Penelope Fillon had been paid 600,000 euros ($645,000) for many years of employment as a parliamentary assistant to him and later to his replacement as a National Assembly lawmaker, and for work at a cultural journal.
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That's in response to the departure of CEO Travis Kalanick, senior VP Emil Michaels and other C-levels executives, and the findings of the Holder report which were released in June and triggered when former engineer Susan Fowler lifted the lid on a culture of sexism and sexual harassment at Uber.
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Talking exclusively to The Sun in aid of the charitable Goss-Michael Foundation, the 22009 year-old Texan lifted the lid on the extraordinary times he shared with Michael during their 218-year relationship, touching on such heart-wrenching issues as Michael's drug abuse, multiple arrests and tragic Christmas Day death.
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The emails may help clarify this issue for Facebook, but they are also a stark reminder that employees understood the gravity of Cambridge Analytica's behavior in 2015, but the firm failed to properly act until the story exploded in March 2018, when whistleblower Christopher Wylie lifted the lid on the scandal.
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The Bolshoi, which was founded in 1776, was last embroiled in controversy in 2013 when its then artistic director, Sergei Filin, had acid thrown in his face in an episode which lifted the lid on poisonous rivalries over roles, money and power at one of Russia's most prominent cultural institutions.
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In the last decade, despite only having a core group of around 15 people working on its research full time, Citizen Lab has uncovered evidence of government espionage within the Dalai Lama's network; lifted the lid on Western companies that quietly sell spyware used by police and intelligence agencies to target dissidents and human rights activists in Morocco, Bahrain, Ethiopia and many other countries; and revealed the existence of a new powerful Chinese censorship system.
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A dustcart driver has lifted the lid on how green waste has also been dumped in landfills under Hampshire's flagship recycling scheme.
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Also additional were the horses' hay and corn,16 August 1788. which generally cost 3/6d to 4/-. The quality of inn fare varied enormously. At Bedford Byng lifted the lid of a damson tart and decided not to have any of it – plastering it down "for the next comer", and adding caustically that "it was not the first time of the lids being removed".13 July 1793.
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After Cenira was left out of the Brazil squad for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, she gave an explosive interview to Placar magazine which lifted the lid on the team's internal politics. Excoriating the Brazilian Football Confederation's (CBF) women's football chief, she claimed, variously, that players still close to Radar boss Eurico Lira had been frozen out, players were being bullied into moving to certain clubs, and that certain players were only picked to keep other players happy.
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The archaeologists carefully lifted the lid of the sarcophogus by twenty centimeters, a laborious process which took fourteen hours. Inside they found the remains of a woman lying on her back. Her skeleton was covered and surrounded by a large collection of jade and pearl objects, bone needles and shells, which were originally pieces of necklaces, earspools and wristlets. Around the skull was a diadem made of flat circular jade beads, and the malachite pieces of what had been a funeral mask.
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Bob Bage, Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis and Frank Bickerton work on the air-tractor sledge in its hangar The Aurora reached the Antarctic mainland on 8 January 1912, after a two-week stop on Macquarie Island to establish a wireless relay station and research base.Riffenburgh (2009), p. 59 The expedition's main base was established in Adélie Land, at Cape Denison in Commonwealth Bay. While the Aurora was unloading, a violent whirlwind lifted the lid off the air-tractor's crate, throwing it .
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Karen and Meehan, in an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on 12 March, were questioned about suggestions by her parents that Meehan had been violent towards Shannon, and on Karen having seven children by at least five fathers (two of the children were registered as having unknown fathers). Commenting on the interview, The Independent said that the case had developed a cruel overtone and that such questions went far beyond necessity and lifted the lid on an uncomfortable hypocrisy in British society.
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The soldier began his duties in the Devil's house When the Devil returned he looked around the house to see if his instructions had been followed properly, and seeing that they had been he was pleased and went out again. The soldier decided that in the Devil's absence it was time for him to have a good look around Hell, and he saw that all the pots were boiling away with a good fire beneath them. He would have liked to have a peek inside them, except the Devil had strictly forbidden this. However, the urge became too much and he lifted the lid of the nearest pot and peeked inside - and there he saw his old sergeant sitting in the boiling hell-broth.
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2013 saw her become one of the anchor presences of 'Fash Tag', part of the YouTube original content initiative, including their Brit Awards coverage. 2012 saw Goldierocks present her first lifestyle documentary Your Body: Your Image 'Faking It' on BBC2, part of the BBC's body image series. She lifted the lid on exactly what goes into creating a single fashion photo, becoming a model for the day and discovering just how many people and how much patience is needed to transform from girl next door to glamour girl. Produced by Dale Templar (Human Planet), the episode was aimed at young schoolchildren to address body image and was played in classrooms nationwide. The same year, Sam hosted the official festival coverage for Last FM throughout the Summer, reporting from SW4, Summer Sundae and Bloodstock Open Air. She also featured within 4Music's 'V:Inspired Taking Care of Christmas' seasonal special.
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