Word: sippings
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...only cheers in the House of Commons were voiced when a white china pitcher, containing orange juice, was carried in for the abstemious Chancellor to sip during his long speech. In the expectant silence that followed, the House could hear the click of the key as Cripps unlocked his dispatch case-the same battered red leather case which had held Britain's budgets since Gladstone...
...Field, Hawaii. They fired flares, saw marker flares dropped in reply. The B-17 turned away and their hopes fell. During the night, one of the men died. As the sun grew hot again, the sky was empty and silent. Pilot Calhoun, a commander still, allowed each man one sip of water in the first 24 hours. It only seemed to make their thirst keener...
...marquee, celebrities swarmed one night this week to the opening of Manhattan's new $300,000 French movie theater, the Paris. They had paid $12.50 a head to look at one another and a movie (La Symphonic Pastorale), test the comfort of the 571 natural-birch seats, and sip coffee and bouillon in the lounge...
...Gives the Most?" "I feel about Kashmir as one feels about a woman," says India's Premier Nehru, who comes often to sip the cold spring water in a Kashmir garden or to spin down the Jhelum River with Kashmir's Premier Sheik Abdullah (see cut). Many a tourist has shared his view, but last week the tourist flood that might have rushed to enjoy the coolness and romance of Kashmir's capital city Srinagar was dammed off by Nehru's government...
...affair was Paris' biggest and smartest since the liberation. In the refined splendor of the Hotel Ritz garden last week, some 1,500 diplomats and millionaires and their ladies gathered to sip champagne and nibble pastries in honor of the hotel's 50th birthday. None contributed more glitteringly to the glitter than a white-haired little woman who greeted them at the entrance in fluent French, English or Spanish. She was 81-year-old Marie Louise ("Mimi") Ritz, widow of the man who founded the hotel-and thereby made his name a synonym for ultra-fashionable...