Word: lippedness
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As ducks do not have much sense, a dog's bark or a floating feather may scare them into piling up in great heaps in which the bottom ducks smother. Sometimes dive-bombing seagulls frighten them into drowning. Diseases may wipe out whole hatches. Yet when the Long Island...
White-lipped, Mrs. Coombes telephoned the police, asked them to get Robert. To police, Robert confessed that he had attacked the little girl, but claimed she had hit her head on a rock. The police thought differently. She had died of asphyxiation and strangulation. Said Mrs. Coombes sadly: "Robert should...
On the sidewalks in front of the neat lawns, the neighbors gathered, purse-lipped, inexorable. They called a meeting, formed a committee. In the original deed to the tract, which included the Crocker's lot, they found just what they needed-a stipulation that, though anyone could buy property...
The individual portrayals are good, but the characters, in the few moments devoted to each one, are standard types: the patriots are staunch, tight-lipped, and unmoved, the German commander a thicknecked, bullet-headed remnant of the days of Von Stroheim's Junkers. The photography is excellent, but in the...
Chileans know Wachholtz as a tight-lipped businessman who made an early fortune in the building industry, conceived the idea of Chile's RFC-like Development Corp. and served as its first president, helped found Chile's largest oil company. He now runs a model farm in the...