Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brussels last week, the man who, as much as any single individual, is responsible for this state of affairs told how it had come about. He is Paul-Henri Spaak, Premier of Belgium. With his cherubic frown, his bulging forehead, his pugnacious lower lip, he bears a startling resemblance to Winston Churchill; in the whole grey and sagging circle of European leaders, he is one of the few men with a spark of Churchillian fire. With one hand thrust truculently into his trouser pocket, he uses the other to tick off the reasons for Belgian prosperity...
...thing nobody could understand was a strange lack of hurly-burly in Brooklyn, where silent Leo (The ex-Lip) Durocher, back-room exile, was busy fitting young arms and legs (products of the Dodgers' farm system) into his batting order. A reporter asked him: "Are you going to worry every club to death, like last year?" Answered The Lip: "I wasn't here last year. Remember...
Mayhem & Haw. In Murfreesboro, Tenn., Herman Robertson sued Clyde Hunter for $1,500 damages, declared that Hunter had bitten off his lip, and that consequently his plow mule no longer understood his directions...
...What will happen when the British aren't here to run in these convoys?" Gibbs asked one capable Jewish woman who helps to organize the food distribution. "We're very worried. I just don't know the answer," she admitted, and bit her lip...
...officials, and officers who have taken the oath, and are under moral obligation to uphold it. For limited government under supreme law they may substitute personal and arbitrary government-the first principle of the totalitarian system against which, it has been alleged, World War II was waged-while giving lip service to the principle of constitutional government...