Word: lip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Above all else Felix developed the ability to change his nature and his wit to profit from any situation. He could be French, Italian or English at the drop of his handsome lower lip. He could entertain monarchs with homely stories about house pets or penetrating analyses of the social-economic state of the nation...
...flaws. It was filmed in the Mediterranean with a French, Italian and American cast, and most of the parts have had to be dubbed in English. The dubbers dubbed the job. In the opening sequence, where Penelope (Silvana Mangano) holds off her importunate suitors, the synchronization of words and lip movements is particularly awry, but this should bother only the churlish few who concentrate on Silvana's lips instead of Silvana entire...
...equipped with a new safety device, first in the industry, which is designed to keep doors closed in accidents, prevent riders from being thrown out of the car. In an accident, the standard locks often disengage and the doors fly open. When the new Studebaker door is closed, a lip projecting from the door automatically interlocks with a lip from the post. The safety lock is operated by the door handle. In a test last week, a dummy-carrying Studebaker equipped with the new locks drove into a concrete barrier at 40 m.p.h.; the doors remained closed...
...Washington De Sapio's remarks set the Stevenson-stacked cadre of the Democratic national committee to whistling through a stiff upper lip. Staffers let it be known that they thought De Sapio was hedging his bets so as to have a Harriman boom ready on the chance that Stevenson may decide not to run. Stevenson has already decided to run, and De Sapio should know...
...National League's fourth place, were ambushed in Minneapolis at an exhibition game with their farm club, bowed to the Millers, 9-5. This ignominy triggered some rumors, led Club President Horace Stoneham, on the spot, to issue two flat denials: 1) Giant Manager Leo ("the Lip") Durocher has no intention of quitting, nor will he be fired; 2) the Giants will not leave New York. The Giants, however, did leave fading (34) Outfielder Monte Irvin, key man on the pennant-winning club in 1951, down on the farm...