Word: flipness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flip side of the optimism of the immigrants' story is the paranoia that the mass of Americans' harbor toward those who are different. As quickly as they can be stirred by the story of the son of Greek immigrants, they can be frightened when reminded that he is, after all, not named Smith, Jones or even Bush...
American gymnastics has taken a giant flip backward since 1984. The team that won 16 medals in Los Angeles is unlikely to win any in Seoul. What happened? East bloc athletes aside, the difference is injuries, inexperience and infighting. Men's Coach Abie Grossfeld admits that "1984 was special. We won't have a group like that again...
Gerstell said that both candidates have flip-flopped on the issues, but said that the Travaglini grassroots claim "is at least credible. What you got in LoPresti is someone who relates to lobbyists and not to people," she said...
...morning of last April 4, Reza was lying down on his hospital bed, flipping TV channels with the remote-control device while Dr. Frankel and Dr. Wallace Lehman, the chief pediatric orthopedic surgeon, were discussing the procedure. Occasionally, Reza would turn his gaze from the set, which was on a rack near the ceiling, to the window, with its view of drab gray apartment buildings, not sky. The family was looking on. "We'll make a cut here, and one here, if we can," said Dr. Frankel, drawing imaginary lines across the top and the bottom of Reza's right...
Some hobbyists enjoy the strange mix of oddly dignified and unsavory characters found in a flip-side world. Others like the colorful road names and don't-look-back life-style. Hopkins is "Santa Fe Bo." Tudor Williams is "Wanderin' Wills." Real hoboes they know include a man named "Wild, Wild Wes," who rides with a crow perched on his shoulder, and "Pepsodent Pete," who quit dentistry for the rails. Then there are those who may be starting the life. Thad ("Thunder") Thorton, 22, sits by the Colorado River and talks of being a late child of parents who died...