Word: flip-flopped
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...medley relay, we did a flip-flop with a couple of swimmers," Harvard coach Ray Essick said yesterday. For Harvard, George Keim swam the butterfly portion instead of Hess Ynetma and Wes Raffel was the anchorman in place of Keim...
...kaleidoscopic show. Sometimes the counters quickly settle into what Conway calls "still lifes" - stable, unchanging figures, including those known in the game's already rich jargon as "bee hives," 9, "snakes," 10 or "long ships," 11 . At other times the patterns may pulse, like the "traffic lights," which flip-flop between patterns 12 and 13. Other figures, including "gliders" and "spaceships," actually move across the board. Some seem to leave clouds of debris behind in their travels ("puffer trains") or climb in a diagonal line ("fuses") and give off clusters of "sparks." One of the more unusual shapes...
...rise marks a complete flip-flop in investor psychology from mid-autumn, when prices were being steadily beaten down by a mixture of confusion about the President's economic-controls program and worry about the world monetary crisis. Then Phase II dawned without disaster, the dollar was devalued and the threat of a global trade war was dissipated. Now many market professionals expect a good year...
Open Contradiction. For his opponents it was one flip-flop too many. Like other observers, acidulous London Times Columnist Bernard Levin stood agape at "the spectacle of the Leader of the Opposition denouncing his own Government's application to join the EEC, and rejecting as totally unacceptable the terms which a year ago he would have been proclaiming a triumph for its skill, patience and determination...
...wrong, he has only to go to that same god again. I wonder how many of them feel the contradiction this strongly. The army has been the source of the best leadership (both Turicos and Yon Sosa were U. S,-trained), but most are not close to such a flip-flop. For most young Indian men, the Army offers the only opportunity for dignity and a relatively decent life. Three meals a day, movie lectures at Ft. Gulick, the big PX in the Sky, fascinating, macho, Green Beret instructors, and most importantly, a gun, which any man, even a North...