Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dodge said Schiller had stopped skiing about 75 feet from the lip of the headwall and then had slipped gradually until he was carried over the edge into a torrent of water that coursed under the snow cover...
...crew of eight, which had dug tunnels through the snow below the headwall lip last night, found nature had aided their work. A high over-night temperature widened the snow tunnels and the searchers sighted the body after three hours digging today...
According to witnesses, the skier made a sweeping turn on the headwall lip, lost his balance, and plunged into a stream of frigid water at the bottom of the crack. Rescue workers dug shafts in the sides of the crevasse and were able to catch sight of the victim's skis...
...little village, perched on the lip of a river gorge, was a bright little place with a steepled church and red-roofed houses. Because such surrounding peaks as snowcapped Karwarasu act as sounding boards for the hot springs that gurgle intermittently in the neighborhood, the Incas had named the village Sondondo-"the place that beats like a heart...
...college doctor diagnosed her case as influenza, and assured her that her hearing would be blocked only temporarily. Her mother prescribed travel in Europe. A specialist suggested that she take up lip reading. She consulted a famous Viennese otologist, who advised her to marry his nephew...