Word: flippings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quiet Confidence. The choice between the generals was not an easy one. Each had a clique of supporters actively rooting for him. Noting that Chapman was senior in time-in-rank to Walt and Krulak, Johnson remarked: "One man said you could flip a coin and any one of three or four would be ideally equipped...
What bothers Peretz, he says in Commentary magazine, is Ramparts' anti-Jewish attitude toward the Arab-Israeli war. Editor Hinckle, says Peretz, likes to be "flippy"-that is, perverse in a flip, hippie sort of way. This translates into articles like the one Peretz calls "the most carefully selective and skewed history of the conflict to come from any source save possibly the propaganda machines of the respective parties." The article "occasionally takes note of Nasser's calculating politics," says Peretz, but "settles the burden of tragic events squarely on Israel." All of this fits what Peretz says...
What Bunuel focuses on is the individual's game with despair. A mad-eyed boy grows madder because some woman runs a comb through her hair. A lady sees a hand, mysteriously unconnected to a body, flip-flopping at her. A man gets off his death-bed to lie quietly on top of anybody who isn't his wife. A collection of private, fairly absurd, moments...
...senior passer's 18th TD flip, breaking the mark set a decade ago by Caroll Lowenstein. Number 17 came with 55 seconds left in the first half on a fingertip grab by the spectacular pigskin Comodore Hornblower...
Equally hard to come by are the scores of games being aired at the same time on another network; the fear is that the rival might have a game more worth watching, and that the viewer, God forbid, would flip the dial. Late in one recent game an ABC announcer cried: "Here's another final in . . . It's -oh, I'm sorry, I'm not supposed to give any more scores...