Word: flipperize
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...thalidomide to relieve anxiety and morning sickness in pregnant women resulted in the birth of thousands of children with cruel deformities, from flipper-like limbs to malformations of the heart. The drug, it is now known, produces a similar effect in the offspring of monkeys and rabbits. But during the premarket tests of thalidomide in the 1950s, it was mainly studied in laboratory rats because they are easy to handle and relatively cheap. No evidence of damage to offspring of rats given the drug was found...
...galloped up Collins Avenue in Miami Beach. Even as rent-a-Revere was spreading the tidings last April, the first Anglo invaders were pouring off a chartered jet at the Miami International Airport. There they were welcomed by a high school band playing Rule, Britannia, Mickey Mouse, Flipper the Dolphin, a bicycle-riding parrot and the mayor of Miami Beach. Hizzoner grabbed the first couple to clear customs and bestowed on them Moët et Chandon champagne, a limousine ride to the Nautilus Hotel and the keys to the city, which in recent years has been sadly depressed...
...creature could be less deserving of such abuse. The manatee is a peaceful herbivore, retaining from its prehistoric days on land the vestigial bones of hind legs and three nails, once claws, at the end of each flipper. It leads a blissful existence chomping underwater weeds and drowsing on sandy bottoms, with reluctant trips up for air about every 4 min. Young manatees love to play with each other or people, embracing with their flippers and kissing full on the muzzle. A mother will usually bear just one calf every three to five years, not enough to offset the current...
...late '50s and early '60s, the world was struck by a catastrophe: thousands of babies were born with grotesque deformities, no arms or legs, or at best, flipper-like appendages. The cause was traced to a sleep-inducing drug that the mothers had been taking during pregnancy-thalidomide. The U.S. escaped the disaster only because of the determination of a doctor at the Food" and Drug Administration who suspected that something was wrong with the drug. This British program is about one of thalidomide's victims and what happened after the headlines stopped...
Other players say the body English, the nudging, gunching and infinite alternations of the ways to flip the flipper and score points off the thumper-bumper make the game a combination of, say, chess (brainwork), hockey (physical coordination) and lovemaking (sensitivity). Concludes Roger C. Sharpe, author of a new, definitive book called Pinball: "It takes years of practice every...