Word: flipness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flip-flop match, the Crimson's number two player, Rusty Ball, fell to Princeton's Jeff Stanley in five games...
Happily, though, there is a flip side to this golden oldie. When not focused on the goings on of Allen's mythical Brooklyn family, Radio Days settles into a likeable send-up of the socialite radio personalities who dominated the airwaves of the '30s and '40s, much as The Purple Rose of Cairo parodied the make-believe movie idols of the same period...
...never forgets." When a former supporter, Homobono Adaza, went over to Enrile's camp, she not only stripped him of his $50,000-a-year position on the board of the San Miguel Corporation, a large state-controlled conglomerate, but replaced him with his archenemy Aquilino Pimentel. The flip side of her fidelity is inflexibility. "I have a long memory for people who have helped me," the President recently warned a group of subordinates, "but I have a longer memory for people who have stood...
...Bruins could not stop Joslin of flip a shot past White, who recorded her second Ivy whitewash...
Serene. Instinctive. Visionary. Determined. Eternally optimistic. Such adjectives are regularly used to form a word picture of Ronald Reagan. They are all true, as far as they go. But each has a less sunny flip side, like a photographic negative of the bright, familiar image. Serene: intellectually $ passive. Instinctive: unreflective. Visionary: oblivious to troubling details. Determined: rigid. Optimistic: detached from reality and unwilling to wrestle with complex issues...