Word: lip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chance at winning $16,000 and a new home for his five children. The $16,000 question: Give the full names of the two publishers of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays and the year it was published. O'Hanlon looked stunned. His wife bit her lip. After 30 seconds, the scholarly cop answered : Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, in 1623. He was right. He has another week to decide whether he will risk...
...session, the four chandeliers have been known to shake and rattle while the music rolled. The bar tenders are so used to making themselves heard above the din that they shout even when talking to their wives at home, and they have developed an aptitude for lip reading to understand drink orders. As for the Metropole's manager, he sees a doctor once a week for a chronic headache. He can afford...
...Moore gushed over Martha Washington (Mechlin lace shawl and pink faille dress hand-painted with native North American flowers and insects), Ike went by the Blue Room (as it was in McKinley's time) and the Red Room (Coolidge era). At the end, he impatiently chewed his upper lip and, to hurry his ladyfolk along, called, "Say, come look at Mamie...
...into ugly corners of the everyday world, sucking up sordid impressions to belch out as nightmare pictures. Burra's brush can turn a gin mill into an outpost of hell, a whore into a rapacious owl, a bottle into an imp with one malignant eye peering from the lip. Now a birdlike, tattered little man of 50, Burra rivals his compatriot Francis Bacon (TIME, Oct. 19, 1953) as a shock dispenser. His latest collection of watercolors, on view last week at Boston's Swetzoff Gallery, bowled over even the blasé Brahmins of Beacon Hill...
MINIMUM WAGE will probably be boosted from 75? to $1 this summer (v. 90? proposed by Ike), but coverage will be extended to few, if any, additional occupations. For 1956 campaign oratory, big-city Democrats will pay lip service to the $1.25 that labor is demanding, but Congress' realists expect that $1 will turn out to be the top point of compromise...