Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rawhiding. Was John L. Lewis himself in any way responsible? He had seldom paid more than lip service to mine safety, and had let damning mine inspection reports go unread in his Washington headquarters. Though he was empowered to demand the closure of unsafe mines, he had never mentioned conditions at Centralia. The thought that he was in any way responsible apparently never crossed John Lewis's mind. Whoever else might be guilty, he was triumphantly, righteously innocent...
...next manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers would be, the erstwhile pilot of the Flock still had not announced his plans for sitting out 365 days of suspension from Happy Chandler's portion of organized baseball. University officials were without comment on the CRIMSON's, suggestion that the Lip be offered a job as assistant baseball coach here...
Saul Mariaschin, shortstop for the team, backed up the Lip. "As a native of Brooklyn," he asserted, "I naturally formed an attachment for the Dodgers, but Chandler's action certainly didn't help the game of baseball. Leo's a great manager anywhere...
...Harvard have long looked to you as the personification of fair play and sportsmanship. Today, two million citizens of Brooklyn dazed, bewildered, almost crushed by the injustice of Leo Durocher's suspension--look to the outside world for leadership. Even Magerkurth in all his Olympian ire never dispatched The Lip to the showers for 154 straight games. That's a lot of ball games, Mr. Bingham...
Togliatti's sinuous dialectic had been so smooth that it evoked chuckles and even admiration from his enemies. In the stunned galleries one old woman kept biting her lip and shaking her head in reluctant respect, mumbling: "He's a clever devil, he's a clever devil!" But a representative of the Vatican's Osservatore Romano gritted his teeth so hard that he lost a filling...