Word: lippedness
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Next day the village doctor came to visit Maria, followed by the village priest. Both came away tight-lipped and silent. Later Maria herself appeared in her garden. Pale and exhausted, she walked in the hot sunlight among the fragrant heavy grapevines and shining oleander bushes. She walked slowly, lost...
They were nothing but punks-callow, sullen, foul-mouthed youths. Tuberculous, bespectacled Johnny West was 22; he had a thin, bony body, a big nose, a girl's mouth, and a mind as weak and erratic as a bat's. Stocky, thick-lipped Robert Daniels was 24; there...
When police entered the plant, they were met with a barrage of bottle bombs containing acid, and ball bearings flung by slingshots. The acid fumes temporarily blinded 113 police, but only enraged the rest. Swinging rifle butts, they drove the strikers into the streets. In three hours it was all...
The world got one of its rare glimpses of long-lipped Major General Vasily Yosifovich ("Vasya") Stalin, 28, Stalin's favorite son. † Ogonek, a Soviet picture magazine, showed him at the controls of a plane, commanding the air show over Moscow's May Day parade (see cut...
Here & there, shooting parties got to work last week, but amid a bedlam of protest. In a tight-lipped editorial, the Times pointed out that, although rooks eat 26,000 tons of grain a year, they pay their way by eating 7,000 tons of harmful insects. Others recalled the...