Word: flipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flip, v. To be excited...
Even Dick Emery, a dangerous passer who beat Harvard with one fell flip last season, is injured, so Coach Charley Caldwell will start Sid Pinch, a small, slow runner who turned in a surprisingly fine game against Colgate...
...reason to overlook what they did to others and to ignore the fact that they normally behave with the hostility of ants at a picnic. The marvelous thing about Hollywood is that these people are recognized as sort of the norm, while I am the flip. These gnarled and twisted personalities see no other way to live except on a pedestal of malicious gossip and rumor to be laid on the ears of unsuspecting people who believe them...
Word of the hoax got out. At first CBS denied the story. Lanza himself fumed : "This is the kind of stuff that makes me flip my lid. There is no reason to use old records. My voice is the greatest in the world...
Annoyed, A.F.L. President George Meany answered Mitchell the next day with a lecture on courtesy: "You don't flip your cigar ashes on the floor when you are visiting friends, as you do when you are at home." Just before Ike's visit, out of a long list of pending resolutions, the convention unanimously passed No. 126: an all-out attack on the Administration ("government of, by and for big business...