Word: flapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rambunctious Adolescents. The flap over grade fixing brought into the open the smoldering feud between the civilians on the faculty and the Navy. Many of the civilians feel like "second-class citizens," and a number have resigned. One of those quitting in protest, English Teacher Richard C. Vitzthum, 29, accused the academy of treating its "civilian faculty as a commodity which it has bought like provisions for the mess hall." Paradoxically, despite the protection of the flunk quota, overall attrition is high: 35% of the average freshman class of 1,300 drops out by graduation. One reason is the hazing...
...Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings where Administration critics were having their day. CBS finally decided that continuous coverage of the Senate hearings was consuming too much time, and consigned that part of the dialogue to evening selections from the tapes. The move stirred up something of an intra-network flap, but it had its defenders in the press. The conference, said the Detroit News, was "infinitely more useful" than "the taunting of that hysterical hound-dog, Wayne Morse of Oregon...
...military planners call it "the red envelope." Shaped like a triangular flap, the 10,000-sq.-mi. zone encompasses the industrial heartland of North Viet Nam (see map). Yet, as though sealed off by an invisible cordon, its cluster of strategic installations around Hanoi and Haiphong has hardly been grazed by the war, for the U.S. has proscribed bombing raids on the triangle-save for some Soviet SAM missile sites and a few minor targets-ever since its day-in, day-out raids against the North began last February...
...boom bah, yippeda, yippeda, yipe. Yo ho heave ho, bibbedy, boppety, boo poop be doo dah. Zippy poo bang wow joo gee pow, pow pow, pow. Yap, sap, flap, trap, blap, bongada bongada...
THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES. This madcap comedy giddily conjures up a great London-Paris air race of 1910, highlighted by a flap-happy cast including Alberto Sordi, Gert Frobe, and Terry-Thomas...