Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...series also left the Dodgers with a managerial problem. Rowdy Leo ("The Lip") Durocher, whose suspension for a year from baseball was partly brought on by Larry MacPhail (TIME. April 21), had served his sentence. Boss Rickey had to choose between him and 62-year-old Burt Shotton, who had stepped into his place and won a pennant without kicking dust on a single umpire. Rickey had long conferences with both last week, and said nothing...
...long as the St. Louis Cardinals had a slim mathematical chance of tying them. At Ebbets Field, as in Yankee Stadium, the spotlight had to seek out the manager. Baseball's winning managers, 1947 style, were a long way from the loudmouth, whoop & holler style of Leo (The Lip) Durocher...
Burt had reclaimed talent beaten down last year by Leo the Lip's rough & ready handling. He helped Outfielder Gene Hermanski renew his self-confidence, and had him fielding better, hitting 83 percentage points higher than last year. When Pitcher Hank Behrman was sold to Pittsburgh and flopped, Manager Burt was the first to say, "We can use him"- and made a serviceable retread...
...most people know by now, Father (William Powell) is the archetype of the absolute family monarch of the '80s - a man .disinclined to take any lip even from the Almighty Himself. But there is an innocence about his tyranny which excuses the kind way everybody, including the authors, feels toward him. Mother (Irene Dunne) is a gentle and infinitely guileful soul with great skill at winning victories by passive resistance. There are four sons, each in a different shade of red hair...
...feed bin, listening to the mammoths eating me into bankruptcy. ... To date, they have tucked away twelve bales of hay, five blocks of salt and three bushels of a mealy substance weighed out on jewelers' scales. With reasonable economy, every glass of milk I throw a lip over next season should cost in the vicinity...