Word: flipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Apology. In Manhattan's Daily Worker last week Communist Fast not only executed a timely party-line flip but wound up looking Nikita Khrushchev straight in the eye in a way that might well give Khrushchev pause about the forces he has let loose in the party. Khrushchev's "secret" speech (TIME, March 26 et seq.), wrote Fast, "is a strange and awful document ... It itemizes a record of barbarism and paranoiac blood lust that will be a lasting and shameful memory to civilized man . . . Mr. Khrushchev led men of good will to understand that the document itself...
...world's best professional and amateur golfers gathered at Rochester's Oak Hill Country Club last week for the 56th National Open, there was a hot sun in the sky and nerve-twanging tension in the air. Before the first round was done, scurrying officials had to flip four times through their complex rule books (sample heading: Hole Made by Burrowing Animal) to settle rhubarbs, including one in favor of Henry Cotton, oldtime monarch of British golf, who was accused of not owning up to an extra stroke. "I said I didn't have...
...Buttrick on Memorial Church and undergraduate church-going habits is ignored. The Christian Fellowship, an extremely unrepresentative, largely fundamentalist group, is used to represent Protestant students on campus, and is compared with Hillel and the Catholic Club. For the second time, the DeMolay Club is treated in a very flip and condescending manner. It is hard to understand why the yearbook editors single it out from all the organizations in the college and accuse it of making "few positive contributions to the Harvard scene...
...more than a year out from Earth Base on a special mission to the planetary system of Alpha Aquilae. As it approaches the Planet Altair-4, it changes flux, reverses polarity, sits down gently as great hairy bolts of blue electricity spray out to cushion the landing. Gangways flip down; scouts run out. The sky is green, the surrounding desert an odd shade of pink. Suddenly a big. black robot drives up, addresses the commander (Leslie Nielsen) in cultured English, invites him to visit the planet's only human inhabitant, a mad scientist (Walter Pidgeon). This Dr. Morbius, sole...
...Worker flip-flopped so energetically that no one, not even Nikita Khrushchev, was sacred to its letter writers...