Word: lip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went over, Thomson leaped. He landed 50 feet below the lip of the road and watched the car with Meuler in it go somersaulting end over end down a steep, brushy, 100-yard slope. Below that, sheer cliffs fell away to the sea. But just before the car cleared the edge, Meuler was flung out. He was horribly hurt-one leg, a hip and his back were broken, his face was torn and his scalp split-but he rose, fell, rose again. Thomson scrambled downhill toward him and put a tourniquet on his bleeding leg. He took off his pants...
...Madonna. She is also musically inclined and bats out a lyric entitled Bungalow on Broadway, which is all set to be the hit of a new Ziegfeld show. But Ziegfeld dies, Bungalow is shelved, and Olga develops cancer. While her life is ebbing, Tightpants has to keep his upper lip stiff and accompany two comedians "in a battle with lemon meringue pies." Tears pour from the stone Madonna's eyes, her breast turns red with grief. When Olga goes to Heaven the Madonna stops crying and turns "to purest white...
...rats," and the incorrigibly anti-Communist "reactionaries," prison air was heavy with tension and suspicion. "You couldn't trust your best friend," said one sergeant. "Were any progressives released today?" a newsman asked one returnee. The ex-P.W., a corporal, bit his lip. "Yes, there were. There is one sitting right next to me." Newsmen gasped, then quickly changed the subject. The man next to the corporal said nothing...
...into Frank Richards in 1908, when at 37 he began publishing his Bunter stories in a halfpenny weekly called the Magnet. To his own astonishment, Bunter soon became a household word, and the entire British Empire seemed to take Greyfriars to its heart. It was a quiet, stiff-upper-lip sort of world where sex and politics were never mentioned, and no gentleman ever thought of tattling on another. Missionaries read about it in Malaya; traders took the Magnet along to Australia; soldiers snatched it up in their canteens in India. Eventually the time came when Charles Hamilton was forced...
...bunker, some 40 ft. from the pin. In trouble, Ben studied the difficult shot from all angles for fully five minutes. Then he hauled out a No. 9 iron, lined up the shot once more, and swung. The ball bounced, rolled boldly toward the hole, struck the back lip, bounced a foot in the air and plunked into the cup for a birdie. From then on, the wee ice mon was invincible...