Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Southern newspaper should not do a lot of lip service about equality for Negroes, and then not do anything about it," he emphasizes. "The course of a liberal newspaper is to get first things done first, namely, achieve for them political and economic equality...
...teachers, some were students. Without exception, those who were concerned for the welfare of the masses were anti-Kuomintang. That is not to say that they were Communists, for they were not. But they saw that the Kuomintang's allegiance to the San Min Chu I was mere lip service. From them I learned that the best way to fight the Communists was by basic, radical economic, social and political reform. Here is what you left out of your article, although Teddy White has been hammering away at the idea for a long time...
...Dewey had bridged the gap characteristically, organizing, organizing, organizing. Republican leaders, Senators, Congressmen, committeemen came to Albany in droves, state by state. Newsmen who covered him were bored to tears, but Republicans everywhere, although privately gloomy about his chances, were heartened by the stiffness of his mustached upper lip and cheered by his obvious determination to mobilize all the resources of the resurgent Republican Party...
Irma's debut was promising, if not exactly auspicious. A trustful shopgirl with a protruding lower lip and a slight lisp, her first mistake was leaving her boss's drug store untended while she rushed off to help a man who had been kicked by a horse. In her absence someone rifled the cash register. Equally unfortunate were her attempts to find a nice young man to go out with...
Effie is just about old enough to be Charley's great aunt. Her background is New England, her foreground bosomy. Her lower lip is lush. On her purple, leg-of-mutton-sleeved blouse she sports a gold lapel watch which Bergen bought for her for $35 in a Manhattan curiosity shop. She sets off her sleekly whittled nether extremities in Gay Nineties round-striped hose...