Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second Washington and Whitehall thought, a difficult but stable government (if De Gaulle could bring it off) might contribute more to the defenses of the West than all the lip service paid to "Western unity" by all the weak Premiers of France in the past decade. It would be worth some dissension to have a French government capable of halting the steady diminution of Western prestige in Asia and Africa caused by the Algerian...
...before 64, as against 62%. ¶Cancer of the mouth, larynx or gullet, which has been associated by Dr. Wynder with a combination of heavy smoking and hard drinking (TIME, June 13, 1955) was only 10% as frequent among Adventist males; the single case recorded was cancer of the lip...
...Queen of Bermuda and bring a piece of rope." He was advised that he should be operating a furnace in hell instead of a newspaper. The House of Assembly hastily voted its hearty displeasure, profound indignation, and poignant regret over the editorial. The News, visibly stiffening its upper lip. explained at length that no offense was intended and that the writer had merely been trying in philosophical vein to interpret the "signs of our hectic times.'' But Toddings admitted ruefully that in 40 years "I have never known a newspaper to be on a more defenseless wicket...
...Lip of Revolution. "Lies," replied Jordan's King Hussein from Amman. When Jordanian police arrested an M.P., two doctors, a couple of schoolteachers and some army officers for trying to send congratulatory messages to Nasser, the Middle East nationalist press reported "Revolution in Jordan...
Asserting (falsely) that Iraqi police had fired on crowds to break up demonstrations in favor of the U.A.R., Nasser's Middle East news agency also reported Iraq "is now on the lip of the volcano...