Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fault too, of another interloper, a big, shambling bear of a man with tousled dark hair, great beefy shoulders, a long, determined upper lip, a fast, tough mind. Wendell Lewis Willkie, 48, product of an Indiana Main Street and New York's Wall Street, was in town. The Convention had not invited him; the Convention wished he were anywhere else. On that dark Sunday afternoon Wendell Willkie was already a political phenomenon without parallel or precedent, a new face, a new force, something powerful and strange cast...
...spent $220,000 to repair Telefonica and got ready to resume operations over Spain's 346,000-telephone circuit. But Dictator Franco had other ideas. Paying lip service to eventual restoration of foreign property rights, he kept the system and its 8,000 employes under Government management, quibbled with I. T. & T. over rehiring some of its 20 American executives. I. T. & T., with a $67,372,241 investment (nearly one-seventh of its total assets) in the Spanish subsidiary, was troubled. Fortnight ago Franco put an end to the utility's anxiety by returning the management...
...willing to be a Vice-Presidential candidate on a Garner ticket (in Tennessee it had been Hull). As he often does, he held a press conference in a barber shop: he is the only man in the U. S. who can talk while a barber shaves his upper lip...
Massachusetts. Last week a judiciously picked Democratic delegation of 72 men, carrying 34 votes (twelve one-third-votes at large; four half-votes in each of 15 districts), was formally lined up under the Term III banner, pledged to give lip service to Big Jim Farley, vote service to Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...with wealth and power ("they are the same"), desperately hanging on to his sexual potency, desperately afraid of its loss, of age, of death. In his gigantic ferroconcrete château in Southern California he lives with his young mistress, Virginia Maunciple, a born courtesan with a short upper lip who frequently repairs, for penitence, to the "Lourdes Grotto" which "Uncle Jo" has built for her. Jo's other mainstay is sleek, Levantine Dr. Sigmund Obispo, who keeps the old man hopped up with hormone injections, and searches, meanwhile, for the substance by which, in Marxist John Strachey...