Word: lippedness
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¶ At Bern, Switzerland, a band of tight-lipped Russians rolled up an overwhelming lead in the fifth European Games (Europe's off-year Olympics) despite their wrong-way marathoner, Ivan Filin. who dogmatically swung left as he entered the stadium for the last lap, and lost out to...
Novelist William Faulkner, notably tight-lipped on home soil, last week found tongue for some reflections on life, letters and Faulkner, while attending the International Congress of Writers in Brazil.
When Steelworker Dennett took the witness stand, he picked up his needles and, with tight-lipped concentration, knitted at a purple and gold stole. He said that he is not now a Communist Party member, declined, under the Fifth Amendment, to say if he had ever been a Communist, and...
The Other Colonel. In Guatemala City, that day, another colonel strode tight-lipped along the underground tunnel that leads from the executive mansion via an elevator to the presidential office on the second floor of the city's avocado-green National Palace. President Jacobo Arbenz, the stubborn, enigmatic career...
Unlike most U.S. ex-Presidents, Harry Truman has never seemed stumped over what to do for an encore. Putting in frequent hot licks on his memoirs, building his $1,750,000 memorial library, gadding off to Democratic clambakes to give 'em hell while television cameras strain on their dollies...