Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ended abruptly with the latter's disappearance from Wall Street, few knew that Perelman had ended another chapter. In bloody Cicero, Illinois, swart Sicilian mobsters fingered their roscoes uneasily, dismayed at lightning forays by a new rival. In a scant eight months, no shell of needled beer touched lip in Chicago County without previous tribute to 'Nails' Perelman. Implacable, deadly as a puff adder, the hand that triggered a steely automatic could caress a first Folio with equal relish. Able to snatch in fifteen minutes the rest most men required a night for, Perelman spent the balance...
...Manhattan's Maico, Inc., an adaptation of their main product-hearing aids. An impression is taken of the outer folds and canal entrance of the ear. From this cast a polished plastic plug is made which extends into the auditory canal, is locked in place by a lip which fits over the helix (rim of the external ear). Light and clean, the plug is easily inserted with a twisting motion, cannot be pushed in too far, leaves sufficient leeway to equalize air pressures...
...Harriman and William Randolph Hearst, thousands of others from all over the U.S.-he personally removed about 25,000 goiters. (Goiter removal is most frequent operation at Minnesota's Mayo and Boston's Lakey Clinics.) He devised his own operations for cancer of the lip and prolapse of the uterus, and advocated an operation on the coeliac ganglion (nickel-size nerve center above the kidneys) to bring down high blood pressure...
...Controller of Shipping. He will coordinate the programs of Army, Navy and Maritime Commission, will have the duty of making sure that all U.S. shipbuilding methods are brought up to date in speed and efficiency. Mr. Gibbs likes nothing better than speed and efficiency. His radical, straight-from-the-lip methods lie behind the technological revolution which made four-day Liberty Ships possible (TIME, Sept. 28); his firm of Gibbs & Cox is responsible for 70% of all Liberty Ships abuilding, turns out 26 acres of blueprints a month, buys $1,000,000 worth of materials a day. As an administrator...
Harvard paid a fairly small price for its victory as far as injuries are concerned . . . Leo Flynn suffered a leg injury, Steve Mallett received two stitches for a lacerated lip, and Charley Gudaitis acquired a lacerated eyebrow...