Word: lippedness
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These disasters could not be blamed on dull, purse-lipped little Admiral Shigetaro Shimada, then, as now, His Imperial Jap Majesty's Navy Minister. It was not he but Admiral Osami Nagano, Hirohito's Chief of Naval Staff and thus top Navy planner, who was the first big...
Correspondents, who had infrequent interviews with him, found a thin-lipped man who seldom smiled, never laughed. His office had a settee for visitors (who under Spruance's piercing eye were inclined to state their business briefly), an armless swivel chair and an ordinary desk which he seldom used...
It is with a sense of comfort even religion cannot afford that I read in TIME (May 15) the fine article on "handsome, patrician Joseph Clark Grew." For so long you have described and accented the personal defects of politicians, statesmen, actors & actresses, and other persons of prominence as "bowlegged...
For Discipline. Neither side had their hearts in the quarrel. The Greeks fell back, firing at random. A stray bullet killed a British officer, the affair's only casualty. At 3:45 a.m. a grimy mutineers' delegation asked for terms; above all, they wanted Greek political unity. Tight...
The tight-lipped Negroes had moved in.