Word: flip-flopped
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Even now, every American response to Soviet reforms is in some way a product of that Cold War view. If it isn't a victory of us over them, it's a flip-flop of that, an enlightened cry for a move of us toward them. Even as the chroniclers of current events proclaim the Cold War to be over, our mental worlds are all still marked by an East-West split...
...first time, the opposition takes control of the upper house of the Diet. -- Soviet President Gorbachev keeps his balance, but the waves are getting rougher. -- Mideast masters of double-talk flip-flop their rhetoric...
Political revisionism is hardly a phenomenon unique to the Gore campaign--Rep. Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.) is an experienced practitioner of the art of the flip-flop, changing his stance on such key issues as supply-side economics and abortion. But Gore is a specifically Southern revisionist--his campaign message is tailored, like the Super Tuesday system itself, to attract a certain type of Southern voter. But the suit has proved ill-fitting...
Indeed, his critics dub him a master of the flip-flop, accusing him of committing the deadliest sin of American politics. As a House member he supported an array of measures that he now repudiates: the 1981 Reagan tax cut, the MX missile, an antiabortion amendment and a freeze in Social Security benefits. But Gephardt is unruffled by the charges of hypocrisy: "All great political leaders have changed their minds in response to changing circumstances. It's silly to be rigid on things when circumstances change...
...flip-flop match, freshman George Polsky, playing number five for the Crimson, fell to Navy's Mark Nicholson in five games. With the match tied at 2-2, Polsky and Nicholson battled back and forth, before Nicholson pulled out a hard-fought 15-11 match...