Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difference between a party platform and a legislative program is the difference between cup and lip. Last week Administration officials were ready to talk about the 81st Congress' legislative program. Faithful Alben Barkley, who will ride herd on the Senate, was prepared to translate at least some, of the Democratic platform promises into...
When the phrase "flower of England" was used to describe the young English dead in World War I, the name of Rupert Brooke was one of the first that usually came to mind. Headed for the Dardanelles assault in 1915, Brooke got septicemia from a lip infection, drowsed off in a fever on shipboard and was buried on the Aegean island of Skyros. He was 27. His generation, bred in formal beauty and ancient peace, numbered many gallant young men; but by all accounts Brooke had the best looks and the greatest charm. Winston Churchill, then First Lord...
...Psychologically, the British stiff upper lip is as imperturbable as ever; mathematically, their plans don't yet add up. But their problem is less a mathematical equation than it is a human one. Sir Stafford Cripps, who I had always supposed was an archangel of austerity, turned out to be a warm, genial, thoroughly pleasant personality, with plenty of humor - and goodness knows, Britain's terrific problems will have to be solved in human terms, not just mathematical ones...
...Hall. Said he: "Mrs. Warren is out there watching what she thought was going to be a quiet performance this morning. Those kids of mine are going to be surprised." At the entrance to the hall, his three young daughters excitedly flung themselves on him, smeared his long upper lip and cheek with lipstick. He rushed on to the rostrum. Said Earl Warren: "I know what it feels like to get hit by a streetcar...
...moored by the feet atop the Broad Street marquee of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. He was a 15-ft. balloon-rubber elephant with an upraised trunk, a flapping lower lip and a silly smile...