Word: flipped
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...farmland and started dredging 400 miles (640 km) of canals, which is more than Venice can claim. It was a peaceful place for old people - Cape Coma, folks called it, until about five years ago, when the gold rush began. College kids were waiting tables to buy condos and flip them; speculators got into bidding wars on unbuilt houses; the price would triple just in the time it took to build. Numbers made no sense; people got drunk and reckless. And then they got crushed. Cape Coral-Fort Myers, once the third fastest growing metro area in the country, last...
...that impatience sloshing around in me? Yes, I felt a throw up coming on, but then something stabbed me. In the leg.Was Old Man Grumpy jabbing me in the thigh? When I looked down I saw nothing. But I lifted my bottom just a smidge (not caring a flip now if I drew attention) and pulled up what was below me: my hymnal! I’d forgotten I’d even been carrying it.Now I took it, clasped it tight with both hands. And as I looked up I couldn’t help smirking real...
...grapples with how best to discipline his men, when to stand up for them and how purposeful and calculated a military leader must be in the management of his troops, Campbell traces the development of a skill set as important as any battlefield tactic or strategy. The flip side of that, however, is a fawning depiction of Campbell's men (they are all brave, they are all worthy), leaching them of any real complexity or humor. Regardless, Joker One manages to show its best, most unique face through a thick and all-too-familiar fog of literary war narratives...
...marketing head of IFC Films. "But as we've started working with filmmakers like Joe and with Steven Soderbergh, for Che, we've found that more artists are starting to realize the audience this approach can reach - the ability to be in front of this many eyeballs at the flip of a switch...
...When going bungee jumping, don’t jump feet first. Jen explained that the cords are tied to your feet, so if you don’t dive headfirst, you’ll end up doing a back flip that’s pretty painful. What does bungee jumping have to do with being socially confident? Well, Jen said, if you can do that, you can pretty much do anything. Plus you’ll have a great story to share in conversations...