Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conferred with the King and Marshal Badoglio. One fact stood out: the Fascist Grand Council met the day before the resignation, its first meeting since Italy entered the war. Mussolini, the wily politician who had made just one big. but fatal, mistake in his fustian career, might hope that lip service to legality would pay him. One unkind rumor had him relinquishing his power on condition that his personal safety be assured. Another rumor had him and his chief party colleagues arrested while seeking escape to Germany, then put under house guard near Rome...
Said youthful, straight-talking Senator Joe Ball of Minnesota: "All the nations are working on two types of peace plan: one based on the assumption that the U.S. will cooperate to organize and preserve peace; the other on the assumption that while the U.S. may give lip service it will not really do anything to help it along. . . . England will have no alternative but to make arrangements with the Soviets unless this country comes out firmly for cooperation...
...crowd, Mr. Smith is the fellow in the brown suit. Middle-sized and homely, he has pale blue-grey eyes behind rimless glasses, and a mustache which (though he boasts "I haven't had a clean-shaven upper lip in 15 years") is invisible in a poor light. He is cautious with his talk, and likes to take several puffs at his straight-stemmed briar pipe before answering a question. His friends joke that "Harold has only one speed: low gear." He works hard at his job, including most evenings, and has very little time for fun. When...
...average Swede is 5-ft. 7-in. tall, has blue eyes, sometimes grey. He is a predominantly Nordic type, has flat temples, prominent chin, lean jaws, thin mouth with long upper lip, sloping shoulders, shallow chest, slender waist, relatively short trunk, long legs. The hair texture is prevailingly fine, sometimes medium...
...Especially now," he said, "when not even lip service needs to be paid in the final examination to the work of the first term, it seems improper to allot credit this way. All these handicaps will be done away with by the simple measure of division, and in addition greater flexibility of program will be available to the undergraduate...