Word: lip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This country is suffering from malnutrition of the soul, and the watery broth of lip service and frosting of morality are not going to get it back on the road to recovery. Our too many religious cooks have added so many man-made seasonings and garnishes to the original all-nourishing Christianity that we are in the stew instead of its being in us . . . MRS. CHARLES R. ALLERS JR. Pittsburgh...
After the first shock of his marine son's death on Corregidor in the spring of 1942, Joseph Fain of Independence, Mo. reacted just like thousands of other fathers-he kept a stiff upper lip, comforted his wife and went on about his business as if nothing had happened. Fain prospered: he had been a policeman, then a member of an Independence Municipal Light Department line crew; after his son's death, he started his own electrical shop and did well...
Rapid Fire. By the fifth round old Jersey Joe, 37, conserving his energy and making every blow count, had slowed down his younger (30) rival. Walcott's sneak right-the one that caught Louis-opened a gash in Charles's lip. A left cut Charles under his right eye. Another right to the jaw staggered Charles just as the bell rang. Not until the sixth round did Walcott effectively use his new trick: a head-snapping left hook. Four of them, rapid-fire, stung Charles into the bout's first real excitement, an explosive, counterpunching flurry which...
Stuart portrait of George Washington, his 31st successor, Harry Truman, took one look at the picture and said: "He hasn't got his wooden teeth." Art experts called in a dental expert with calipers to measure Washington's nose, upper lip and chin, then compared the findings with similar measurements of other Stuart portraits. His verdict: President Truman is undoubtedly right; Stuart painted this portrait with the famous dentures missing...
...Fabiola's most nagging fault is its inexpert dubbing. The voices not only fail to jibe with lip movements, but they are so similar at times and so evenly grouped around the microphone that the moviegoer must carefully search the screen to be sure just which character is supposed to be speaking...