Word: lippedness
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The craftsmen were rarely violent and seldom vicious: for all their burdens, they tended to look upon their foreign masters with both humor and indulgence. It was the strange habits of the white men that intrigued them. Hats and shoes were something new, so one Madagascan artist sculpted a colonial...
Rivaling Jackie Kennedy for the headlines were the two generals: blond, flint-eyed Maurice Challe, 55, onetime commander of the French army in Algeria, and balding, tight-lipped Andre Zeller, 63. In an ornate, oak-paneled courtroom of the ancient Palais de Justice, both went on trial for leading the...
Little Vigor. The testimony caused uneasy stirrings in London. It was pointed out that to have given the Nazis 10,000 trucks to use on the Russian front would have split the Allies just when Hitler was on the brink of collapse. In the face of tight-lipped official silence...
Only after the mob had grown to 3,000 did the state police finally decide to end the riot with tear gas. In Washington, Bobby Kennedy was white-lipped with anger when he heard the news. Moving swiftly, he deputized some 400 nonmilitary officials-largely deputy marshals and Treasury agents...
Attacking modern critics who favor an ironic tone, he said that "ours is the most thin-lipped, thin blooded culture of the century. Dry irony has risen to the point where a minor writer like Laforgue is favored over Victor Hugo."