Word: lip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation became more heavily industrialized, however, labor leaders realized that better working conditions could, in many cases, be obtained only through governmental action. While paying lip service to Gompers' credo, many unions openly or surreptitiously backed friendly candidates, while almost all opened legislative lobbies in Washington and State capitals...
With half an hour to go one evening during her vigorous portrayal of Joan of Arc in The Lark, Broadway's Actress Julie Harris (TIME, Nov. 28) threw herself into an all-too-real fall onstage, split her lip in sideswiping a footstool. The curtain was rung down for ten minutes, while three doctors recruited from the audience made temporary repairs on Julie. Then, amidst bravos, she finished the play. After that, Julie had eight stitches made in her lip, was almost as good as new at next day's matinee...
...Veneer. To get around the disadvantages of conventional bricks, which are heavy, costly to transport, and cannot be laid easily in cold weather, Chicago's Ludowici-Celadon Co. has developed Nail-On, a hard clay brick ¾ in. thick. It can be nailed to a wall through a lip protruding along its top edge; the bottom edge of the next brick overlaps the lip to form a neat joint. Mortar can be applied whenever builder and weather are ready...
...very close to my heart, and I am most grateful to you for bringing to the attention of your readers the effort being made at Clarke School to do for little deaf children what other schools are doing for those blessed with hearing. Teaching the deaf child to lip-read and to talk, and thus take his place in our hearing world, is only one facet of the work -another important part is to bring about a greater public understanding of the problems of the deaf, and in this you have helped immeasurably...
...hero (Richard Egan), a Southerner who has "lapsed" to New York, is sent back on legal business to his home town, Pompey's Head. On the way, he limbers up his lip for both the accent and the girl (Dana Wynter) he left behind him. The accent Actor Egan never does quite come to isolate, but the girl he gets alone in a hotel room on his first day in town...