Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inroads of civilization and the disintegration of the ancestral myths have made "duck-billing" a dying custom. Only a few elderly believers are still alive. Even they have shown a tendency to go mod ern; instead of the old wooden plugs, the Fali women are turning to plastic lip plugs, preferably colored bright...
This British attitude is not new. It was concealed by the traditional British stiff upper lip and by such bold flashes as Churchill's Fulton speech of 1946 and Ernest Bevin's stand against the Russians at the 1947 London Conference. But underneath, the British know that in a military sense their position is indefensible...
...playing a cautious game, Sam took a custom-made 2½ wood from his bag and aimed a daring shot right at the pin. He flubbed it; the ball landed in a fairway bunker. Trying desperately for the green, he slashed an iron shot that landed on an overhanging lip above a sandtrap, rolled back toward the sand and hung precariously in long grass. On his fourth shot, with one foot in the trap and one out, Snead overshot the green and fell into another bunker. Then someone told him he had to get down in two to tie Byron...
...these Four Years. It seems to us that in the space of a little less than ten months President Pusey has given the idea of liberal education a needed scrubbing and polishing-especially in a time when the two words are so bandied about, usually in little more than lip service. Addresses, on commencement days especially, often seem so cut from platitures that they are stiff, rigid, lifeless things. Yet during the course of this first year, Nathan Pusey has outlined succinctly the principles on which a graduate could well model the course of his life. Some of the things...
...official veterinarian arrives to make sure the grey horse's lip tattoo matches the one listed for Native Dancer (F6888), takes his temperature (99.4) and pulse...