Word: lip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South . . . When are the gallant Southern gentlemen going to learn that the color of the skin is no criteria of the purity of the heart? Isn't it about time that this misguided section of the country quit dragging its feet and pay more than mere lip service to the ideals of our Constitution...
...Vegas, Nev., Actor John Barrymore Jr., 22, in an escapade reminiscent of some his madcap father used to pull, was nabbed for reckless driving while whooping it up on his second wedding anniversary. He gave the cops some grandiloquent lip, was promptly tossed into jail, let out shortly on $300 bail, next day pleaded innocent...
...Twixt the Cup & the Lip. In Gütersloh, Germany, police arrested Friedelina Kleine-Beek after she followed her husband to a local tavern, watched through the window as he raised a glass of beer to his lips, then carefully aimed a rifle and fired, shattering the glass, but leaving her husband unscathed...
Under the Fans. When Chou En-lai recently visited Burma, said U Nu, he expressed his admiration for Burma's moral integrity. U Nu pointed the moral: "Friendly relations between countries, solidarity and progress rest mainly on moral integrity. Here lip service without sincerity cannot achieve anything." Commented Burma's English-language Nation: "It is something like saying to a dangerous animal, 'I know you are a good boy, and won't bite anyone,' when what one really means is, 'I hope you will be a good boy and not bite...
...went to Chartwell last August for the first sitting, the Prime Minister asked: "Are you going to paint me as a tiger or cherub?" Watching the old man take his seat on a large dais, Sutherland made up his mind. "He took up a position as a tiger. The lip was out. The head was challenging. The eyes were looking direct." Then and there, he made his choice between Churchill the benign and humorous and Churchill the uncompromising. "It seemed to me essential," Sutherland explained, "that Churchill should be portrayed with a certain degree of intransigence-with the moral fiber...