Word: flipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...celebrities as Henry Morgenthau Jr., Rudy Vallee, Eleanor Roosevelt and Guy Lombardo to dance. Its airy ballroom resembles an outdoor terrace, with three cages of parakeets at one end; there are eight smaller dance, studios into which music is piped all day long, with different tunes available at the flip of a switch...
...throwing her over for another torso-tosser named Nejla Ates, a 21-year-old Turk. After sparking Nejla between the acts in a Manhattan nightspot, Shep brayed happily: "She has everything-plus castanets." They would marry as soon as he could divorce Samia, who, he predicted, would "flip her lid" at the news. In far off Cairo, Samia got the news but played it cool: "He may want to know that I had a very disdainful smile and no flipping lids...
...drownings have ever occured, since all rowers must pass a swimming test. But Thirty-Minute club members have been known to tip-over, also; the wash from large fast launches can easily flip over a single shell, 18 inches wide at the widest...
Author Stafford is a fine hand at finding the exact word, turning the perfect sentence. But what gives her stories their special stamp is a somberly muted tone of helpless rage that the things she writes about can be. Hers is no book in which to flip pages toward neatly contrived happy endings. It consists of ten small monuments to minor tragedy. Her trouble is that she cannot make them seem major...
...flip of the coln may decide the second base problem," according to McInnis. He has five men there, "all equally good." Veterans John Canepa, Wait Greeley, Paul Crowley, and sophomore Frank Nahigian are all after the job. Canepa played there last season with Crowley, while hockey captain Greeley alternated at shortstop...