Search Details

Word: lip (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...look around. He was in the middle of the date section and, as he looked at the monotonous lines of smiling faces he moodily reflected on the custom of bringing girls to football games. He was not alone in these reflections, however, for when Sebbie returned, his upper lip painted in the moustache left by an orange drink, some of the girlish smiles above him turned to frowns and giggles. There dawned the uneasy suspicion in Vag that he was being marked as a pervert...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: The Prince and the Pauper | 11/19/1958 | See Source »

...Night Heaven Fell (Raoul J. Levy; Kingsley International). "Is it fun to make love?" the foxy little doxy inquires as she hip-flips up to the camera and (as the French say) "makes the lip." Since the girl is played by Brigitte Bardot, she obviously has no trouble getting all sorts of answers to her question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 17, 1958 | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

Celeste is trying to arouse the voters on the issues of labor racketeering and civil rights. "I abhor elected officials who give lip service to law and order and then conspire with the labor barons to enhance their political futures," he told a Christian Science Monitor reporter recently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Democratic State in a Democratic Year It's Kennedy vs. Furcolo in Massachusetts | 10/29/1958 | See Source »

...familiar with Hunt Clubs, and as his 1943 Plymouth came to a trembling stop on the fine pebble driveway, he bit his lip and looked around uncertainly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polo Pour Tout | 10/21/1958 | See Source »

...complete disintegration." Mahood, the hero-victim of The Unnamable, who early in the book dubs himself Worm, never leaves a large jar. It stands on a pedestal in a street presumably in Paris, just outside a chophouse. He is without arms and legs, and a collar fastened to the lip of the jar fits under his jaw so that he cannot move his head. The restaurant owner's wife changes the sawdust in the jar now and then, feeds him, and festoons the grisly exhibit with Chinese lanterns. Watching the passing show, Mahood cries endless tears into his beard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beware the Blob | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Next