Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Leo Ernest ("Lippy") Durocher, 37, resonant manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers; by Grace Loretta Dozier Durocher (Dress Designer "Carol King"), 40; after nine years of marriage (his first, her second); in St. Louis. She said that The Lip was "constantly of a nagging disposition," asked no alimony...
When the Marines began recruiting women reservists seven months ago, the Corps decided that its uniformed women would carry no telescoped name like WACs, WAVES or SPARS; they would be Marines. But "women Marines" is a lip-twisting phrase. "She-Marines" (TIME, June 21) was frowned on, too. But the eventual development of some unofficial nickname was certain. Last week the Corps had it: BAMs. In leatherneck lingo that stands (approximately) for Broad-Axle Marines...
Once before, 25 years ago, a tired, bitter little corporal had shuffled along the grey road back. Now, the same beaten road stretched ahead, and Adolf Hitler saw it. Even the arrogant intuition could not feel victory: the Führer paid his lip service, but he was not really offering victory. Like Goebbels, Hitler could only tell the German people that, for honor's sake, they must clutch their hearts, march on in faithful discipline toward the precipice...
...will need to realize that it cannot safely relax into a simple alliance or loose confederation, made holier by lip service to democracy and dedicated to the maintenance of the status quo. It will have to find a framework for world order which, while keeping the peace better than before, permits change. It will have to find a framework which will make allowance for the fundamental U.S. bias toward freedom and growth for itself and for others...
...quality : the two lightest were the two best. Pfc. John B. O'Dea's Where E'er We Go was a lively stenographic report of talk in barracks, with some good cracks tossed in by the stenographer. Corporal Irving G. Neiman's Button Your Lip was a comic free-for-all about dazed rookies, daffy rumors and the presence in camp of a glamorous star. At each performance a different star - Gertrude Lawrence, Ilona Massey, Carole Landis, Gypsy Rose Lee - turned up in person for the tag line...