Word: flippings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soviet police had barred the way with trucks and cars. When the cops refused to budge, the crowd began rocking a police car, intending to flip it over. Anxious to avoid bloodshed, and outnumbered 100 to 1, the police gave way after a brief scuffle. As English-speaking Russian youths-members of the Young Communist League-blocked the view from Western photographers, the students regrouped, marched through the heart of Moscow singing freedom songs. But the police regrouped too, and near Red Square, officials commandeered more trucks to block the entrance. Loudspeakers blared "Entry to Red Square is closed...
...Crimson took advantage of two Bowdoin weaknesses to control the puck for most of the rest of the game. Some-times they would skate up to a Polar Bear defender, flip the puck over his stick, and fly by to regain control of the disc, with no checks to hamper them...
...thick Yorkshire inflection. In Summer and Smoke he purred in decayed Southern tones, in Wild Side he was a drawl-in' no-good Texas bum, and in Butterfield 8 he was a pale Yalie. This sort of variety is what he likes. "I refuse," he says with a flip of the wrist, "to be myself in films. It's been a long time since I've used my normal voice...
...across the adjacent track. Seconds later, alerted by a warning flare, a passenger train southbound from Tokyo halted on a clear track beside the freight. At that moment, a northbound commuter train roared up the middle track. The locomotive crashed into the derailed freight cars, did a right angle flip and sliced through the fifth and six coaches of the passenger train. The first rescuers recoiled from the carnage. Recalled one: "There were bodies piled four to six deep. There were legs, arms and heads torn off, all bloody, scattered everywhere. It was a horrible human version of a doll...
...Europe the anti-tobacco campaign is far less circumspect. The British Ministry of Health has put up more than a million posters. One says: "Why be another sheep? Before you smoke, THINK. Cigarettes cause lung cancer." Another shows a half-open coffin, with the legend: "The big Flip-Top Box for the Smoker." In Italy, all tobacco advertising was made illegal...