Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Underlying cause of it all: discontent with oldtime governors and bosses who give lip service to the ideals of the revolution, political support to the regime in Mexico City, but rule their own states for themselves and their relatives. The rise of a new type of governor interested in being a good public servant, in pushing good roads and building schools, has compounded the impatience...
Certainly, lip service diplomacy on issues as clearly drawn as this does not serve to increase this country's popularity abroad nor does it remove telling ammunition from the arms of those who can use it most effectively against the United States in diplomatic struggles...
...employed, and with a major assist from a sympathetic government, he had raised their wage level from an average hourly wage of 50? in 1933 to $1.47 an hour last summer. He never bothered much about other gains, such as safety devices and hospitalization, although he paid such things lip service. When the Government seized the mines last spring he wrung from it a 5?-per-ton royalty for a welfare fund. The major objective of Economic Royalist Lewis has always been higher wages. Although his new demands were not officially made public, they embraced a shortened week...
Pascal curled his lip. "Lettrism," he sneered. "Sensorialism. These are what menace us today. We must combat them if we wish things to remain as they were in the good old days...
...disheveled blonde with a set lip and calloused hands, and she was thumbing a ride in New Jersey's Palisades Park. Through his windshield, Patrolman Leonard Cottrell saw her soiled shirt, the dirty dungarees rolled to her knees, the cheap zipper bag she carried. He pulled to the curb...