Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before him on his desk, he spoke to the Young Democrats of America. When he finished he called the Capitol again. The news of adjournment was not so good. It got worse. In the Senate the matter of cotton loans was the slip that had come between cup and lip...
Oreste Baratieri was a Garibaldi Redshirt and an old-school Italian with a family pride sensitive as a rabbit's lip. Three days he brooded over the telegram from Premier Crispi, then assembled the four Generals under his command for a conference. The Ethiopian army was encamped 18 miles away in a brutal country of cliffs, gullies and thorn-covered hills. It outnumbered the Italians six to one and was equipped with artillery. Even so, all five Italian Generals voted to attack at once for the honor of their commander...
...After exposure to cold, shock or insult, their fingers or toes turn white, feel icy, grow numb, hurt. Attacks last from a few minutes to an hour. After many attacks the fingers or toes decay, may drop off. Sometimes the tip of the nose, the ears, parts of the lip rot away...
...Count Coreth had meant by "the Austrian people" the proletariat rather than the devout peasantry no assertion could have been more monstrous. In 1919 as an act of Marxist right and mass justice the Imperial and Royal House of Habsburg?they of the curling ''Habsburg lip" ?were stripped of their lands and property down to the very nightgown of fugitive Empress Zita. Spurned by a Socialist Austrian Government, which exercised mercy only in saving the Habsburgs from being butchered as the Romanovs were butchered, Little Otto's uninspiring father, Kaiser Karl, was allowed to slip away...
...doctor started creeping up and at the 30th hole, the match was even. On the 34th Little was two up again, but Dr. Tweddell won the 35th. On the 36th. Little sliced his drive, made a magnificent 100-yd. iron recovery and putted his third shot to the lip of the cup. This left Dr. Tweddell, on in two but 25 feet from the pin, one more chance to keep the match alive...