Word: lippedness
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Every working afternoon at 3 o'clock Lord Halifax strides, in his stooping glide, into the Governors' Room, puts a battered, black suitcase on the conference table, and spills out documents giving the secret, depressing details of Britain's economic position. Halifax is chairman of the British...
The glare of floodlights suddenly fell on the defendants' faces. A small, stocky woman walked toward the dock. She pointed at a thin-lipped, narrow-eyed man with a low. receding forehead and brows grown together in a constant frown. "This man I recognize," she said. (It was Joseph...
As usual in the tight-lipped company, no one would say what had caused the earth quake. But this time the silence was doubly significant. When Young Henry moved into the presidency a fortnight ago, automen watched sharply to see how much power Old Henry would let him have. (In...
Police Record. Mayor Anton Cermak, who was trying to get Chicago's mildewed reputation scrubbed up for the World's Fair, clamored for a crime cleanup. But the police turned up little except neighborhood rumor: a man named Ted Marcinkiewicz had threatened to hold up Vera's...
Halsey's job was to sit behind a desk in Noumea and direct a campaign while other men fought the battles. Rear Admirals Daniel J. Callaghan and Norman Scott were killed in the crucial series of night actions known as the Battle of Guadalcanal (Nov. 13-15, 1942), which...