Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fleet), but pretty soon he throws her back in the gutter and takes up with Earp instead. He follows Earp everywhere, reeking of whisky and gratitude, and twice saves his life from bushwhackers. "Ya done it again. Doc." says Marshal Earp. making a manly effort to control his trembling lip. "We're even." Doc mumbles shyly, and lowers his eyes...
...Florida might some day become less necessary. Europe's headlines followed him about in friendly fashion ("OUTLOOK-PEACEFUL"). Even his colleagues in Washington-long put out because of his passion for headlines- were now looking upon him with a less jaundiced eye. Harold Stassen was keeping a tight lip and competently going about negotiations as delicate as any in U.S. history: to see whether the Russians are indeed willing to take a concrete, self-enforcing first step toward the reduction of arms...
Bush Leagues & Bonuses. All over the country, college coaches echo Bibb's caustic comments. Things were bad enough when the major leagues paid polite lip service to their own rule forbidding dickering with collegians between sophomore year and graduation. But even that rule has been rescinded. Some 35% of the players on today's big-league clubs started their careers on college campuses. Some, like the Chicago Cubs' Moe Drabowsky (Trinity College), skipped the minors and started in the big time. Others, like Milwaukee's Pitcher Gene Conley (Washington State), St. Louis' Shortstop Alvin Dark...
...years to 1856, in "Indja," where Flynn, as noble, good-hearted, brave and true, in a word, English, Major Geoffrey Vicars, skirmishes baggy-trousered local rebels, goes panther shooting, or was it cheetahs, with the treacherous Surat Khan, and loses the love of Olivia DeHaviland, whose lower lip quivers almost continuously in the role of some English general's tender-sweet daughter. The charge, rung in as a sort of last resort in the last ten minutes of the film, climaxes an hour and a half of historical rance, during which the heroine says, "Perry (Geoff's younger brother...
...This is the House of Fellowship Binder of bonds that ne'er shall slip. Here but one word on every lip, Harvard--and Harvard alone...