Word: flipping
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...former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney, who, as the son of a former Michigan governor grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth, much like Dahl’s Veruca Salt. Romney is definitely the most blue-blooded and aristocratic of all candidates, and has shown a penchant for flip-flopping as the political wind changes, just as the greedy Veruca constantly changed her mind about what she wanted. The loud, brash, and hypercompetitive former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani most resembles Violet Beauregaurde. Consistently exaggerating his record when talking about “cleaning up New York City?...
From the looks of his resumé, Republican strategist Lanhee J. Chen ’99 might seem like a professional flip-flopper...
Call me draconian, but something about the flip-flopped guy next to me who clipped his toenails at 37,000 ft.--their crescent moons cartwheeling majestically into the aisle--turned me into a hard-liner on this issue...
...apartments each take up a whole floor and have in common temperature-controlled concrete floors and pure linen bedding, along with white Havaiana flip-flops and crisp waffle robes for lounging in style...
...washers as soon as they stop spinning, and throw them out of the way. It takes only an extra 30 seconds to remove the load carefully, instead of dumping piles of dripping pants, underwear and towels onto a dust covered countertop (losing a sock in the process). On the flip side, the average drying cycle lasts about 56 minutes. No one expects fellow students to time their loads to the minute, returning to fetch clean clothes at the exact moment of completion. Most of us run on incredibly tight schedules, and don’t factor in a two-hour...