Word: flips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joseph Morton, King Mihai last week told the story of his dramatic palace coup which flip-flopped Rumania from the Axis to the Allied camp (TIME, Sept...
...Rumania flip-flopped last week out of the war on the German side into the war on the Allied side. Rumors of Rumanian peace feelers and talks with the Russians and British had buzzed around for months. But the Red Army's mighty shove (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS) shook the royal palace, jolted young King Mihai and his aging aide-de-camp, General Constantin Sanatescu, into the realization that it was time to stop buzzing and do something. Young Mihai reached first for his Tommy gun, then for a microphone...
Young Mihai's Tommy gun nearly jammed on him. In the hustle & bustle of flip-flopping, General Antonescu was reported to have tried to make peace with the Allies first. Mihai beat his former dictator to the decision and the microphone by little more than the length of his Hohenzollern nose...
There was little jesting about the menace. Londoners took seriously the flip motto of one ack-ack crew: "If doodle dallies, don't dawdle. Dive!" Nicknames for the Things were short-lived. The latest: "bumblebees." Most Londoners, with prop er respect, called the Things by their formal name: flying bombs...
...Flip a coin, consult a crystal...