Word: flipping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...explanation. A French section leader twirls her hair anxiously, prods a student for an answer and then says disgustedly, "We're just going to skip you." An Expository Writing teacher tries to carry on a class discussion while returning papers, but loses the attention of the class as they flip through the papers to find their grades...
Caesonia asks not just Scipio, but the entire audience, to empathize with Caligula and to understand the magnitude of his misery--the torture that drives an individual to such sadism. But Martinez delivers the lines in a flip, spiteful tone--not at all imploringly or sensitively--and, as a result, another numeral of the combination to the play's thematic lock fails to click with the audience...
Even most Senators who opposed the treaties had little hope of staging a comeback. Said Michigan Republican Robert Griffin, a leader of the antitreaty forces: "I don't know where the votes would come from. A Senator can't afford to flip after his first vote...
...dancers' own bodies. The sacks are whirled or swung or tossed through space; Cunningham himself falls dead-weight on a group of dancers and is dragged across the floor like a sack; later, he is tossed up and down between two dancers the way two children would flip an unwieldy pillow. There is no hint of moral implication or sociological statement in Cunningham's unlikely equation. Instead, he catches the audience off-balance with an impishly daring physical metaphor in order to explore an aspect of the way bodies move in space...
...John Cochrane's ninth of the season, as the classy junior converted centerman Rick Benson's backhand pass into a flip shot goal from 2 feet out, punctuating the well-fed break into the Dartmouth zone by the Cochrane-Benson-and Phil Evans threesome...