Word: lip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place in an essay contest on "Why I Am Glad I Am an American." He had gotten most of his ideas on this subject from a comic book whose hero was Uncle Sam. The book said that Uncle Sam was happy because he was free to go around and "lip off" about anything he pleased, because "he didn't have to mind...
...heard of it," said Zorn, and shuddered as he thought of the Todal-"a blob of glup [that] makes a sound like rabbits screaming, and smells of old, unopened rooms." Still worse, the Duke explained, "it's made of lip [and] it gleeps...
Baseball's Leo ("The Lip") Durocher gave Columnist Earl Wilson a dead-end kid's impression of what it is like to share a transcontinental plane seat with Greta Garbo: "She sits next to me and I notice that she's so nervous that her hand is shaking on the arm of the seat... It was her first trip ... I guess she'd never had any bum talk to her before like I did. She got calm . . . That Greta's wonderful. When you see her up close, she's really got a beautiful kisser...
...Skull, Lip & Palate. To test his theory, Dr. Ingalls and colleagues at Harvard's School of Public Health took 300 mice in batches of 20, subjected them to oxygen lack (artificial "high altitude") for five hours on certain days of their pregnancies. Mice, unlike men, do not suffer from mongolism. But Dr. Ingalls found skull defects (actually worse than mongolism) in about a third of the litters which had been starved of oxygen on the eighth day of development. Lack of oxygen on the twelfth day gave them harelip, on the 14th day, cleft palate...
...Northwestern University's Cleft Lip and Palate Institute, Orthodontist Graber and other researchers emphasize that five-sixths of the upper jaw's growth is completed in the first five years of life, while the lower keeps on growing for another dozen years or more. When surgery is performed to close a cleft palate in an infant only one or two years old, Dr. Graber says, the growth of the upper jaw may be stunted, tooth buds are often destroyed, and normal growth of the lower jaw eventually produces a grotesque appearance...