Word: lip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squat jet engine in the middle and a bubble cockpit perched above. From the engine's 35 burner tubes blasts would radiate to 180 exhaust ports all around the saucer's edge. To apply the Coanda effect the pilot needs some kind of movable control over one lip of each exhaust. To take off he would set these controls to deflect the blasts downward. The downblasts carry along with them more air from above the plane than from below it. This decreases air pressure on the top, causing the saucer to rise...
...flossy Montparnasse bistro and cornered her pomaded prey. As the cameras converged on him, Rubirosa snarled at the photographers: "You'll not take any pictures of me with Miss Gabor." Actress Gabor, making the most of a big emotional scene, quietly began to cry. Unmoved, Rubirosa curled his lip and told her: "Get out! I don't need you!" Zsa Zsa went-by taxi straight to Rubirosa's Paris home, where she was a house guest. By late next afternoon, their little spat was lost in a welter of cooing. Zsa Zsa, looking wan but well, cantered...
...beautiful white captive (Rhonda Fleming), who writhes seductively through the rents in her muslin. "I'm not one to submit with servility!" she cries, for she is a New England miss. "Such spirit amuses me," murmurs Omar, the Aga of the Janissaries (Bart Roberts), lecherously twirling his lip-tussock, and off she is hauled to his harem, there to be anointed with fragrant scents that drive the Aga gaga...
...British Empire, old India hands toted the white man's burden, and Rudyard Kipling wrote about it in some 35 volumes of prose and poetry. Now that the burden has been lifted, many an old India hand has little to tote but a stiff upper lip. Not so John Masters, exbrigadier of the Indian army. Bounced out of India by Indian independence, he has bounced right back again, figuratively, at least, with a self-imposed burden of Kiplingesque dimensions. The burden: to write 35 novels about the land of purdah and pukka sahibs, covering the rise and fall...
...sponsoring the Harvard Composers' series, WHRB, the Music Club, and Adams House have given more than mere lip-service to local talent. They have provided an opportunity for these composers to crystallize, through the test of performance, the course which their music will take in the future...