Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman Doctrine was something more than lip-service to the ideals of the brotherhood...
...sufficient student interest could be aroused were dismissed when large quorums turned out at the nominating meetings. Both the subsequent discussions of problems facing the Council and the political campaigning that preceded the elections point to the fact that the majority of the student body has offered more than lip-service to the realization of the underlying spirit of the Constitution. Other unthinking critics have expressed fear of this sudden increase in political action, apparently unmindful that such naturally stimulated interest is a sign of health rather than discase in the body politic. The whole question of how much political...
...much-publicized radio legend (which Uncle Don insists is a canard): once, having finished off a program with a particularly sugary string of cliches and commercials, he loosened his tie, curled his lip and snarled: "There, I guess that'll hold the little bastards." Then he learned that he was still...
...Other Shore. It had certainly been a crowded month for Ellis Arnall. He had made a last gesture of splendid defiance toward Herman Talmadge. He had posed for photographers, lower lip outthrust, round face fixed in a fighting expression...
...MacLeod feels that the Churches of Scotland and England have paid only stammering lip service to the vigorous promptings on this score from the late William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury. Says he: "They have been willing to listen to the Temple bells, but not to beat the Temple drums...