Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remainder of the Government?" He admitted that "other steps" would have to be taken after the unified military establishment had been set up. Navymen claimed that the Navy's proposed National Security Council made those steps in one stride. But Harry Truman did not choose to pay even lip service to any Navy proposals...
...Curled Lip...
...metaphor this, TIME. A curl of the lip to the editor who does not recognize a simile when he sees...
...Hope. Stassen notably did not i) bring Russia into his atomic equation; 2) get specific about the faults which must be corrected before the atom can be entrusted to UNO's care. What he did offer was aggressive good faith: ". . . We must do more than give lip service to the United Nations Organization...
...element of hypocrisy in Japanese compliance with American demands is, I believe, very low. Some big businessmen pay only lip service to the dissolution of the Zaibatsu, peasants disapprove of free discussion of the imperial institution, etc. But the great majority hope that compliance with American demands will improve their lot. Certainly the Japs have to be watched-mainly because they are medievals whose westernization is only skin deep. Relatively. their purposes and motives are more trustworthy than their mental habits...