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Word: flips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think that's silly. All Flip said was that he had a cute babe with him, and that's the straight stuff. Dowst got a first sentence that made sense, and then dissolved into gibberish. There's still time. Lot's beat those stuck-up Boston papers. Let's go to press...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corkin Lingers in Danger As Harvard Sleuths Ponder | 2/2/1943 | See Source »

Killer. They sent Buzz to Australia to fetch more planes that were not there. By the time some P-40s arrived Java was being invaded. Charles ("Bud") Sprague and Buzz were told to flip a coin to decide who would go to Java, who would remain in Australia to teach some green pilots just arrived from the U.S. Sprague went to Java, where he was killed. "You won the toss?" a newsman asked Buzz. "No, I lost. Bud Sprague was my friend," said Buzz, his blue-green eyes ablaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Death of the Nonpareil | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

...peashooters are attacked by Zeroes and new I-97s I see six go at Sawyer. He makes a head-on run at the leader, pours in a couple of bursts. The I-97, camouflaged with bright green paint, falls away in smoke. Five others do a quick flip to get on Charlie's tail, but he dives and pulls rapidly away and then comes up again on the corner of our tails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: FLIGHT TO THE RISING SUN | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...jolted Washington with its bland statement that consumer sugar stocks were "only slightly below normal" and that there was no need for rationing. Up jumped the Agriculture Department: "Sugar for use in the continental U.S. is expected to be the smallest in 20 years." Then, with a so-there flip of its head, the Department added: "Rationing is necessary." OPA-which doled out the 130,000,000 sugar-ration cards-quickly and emphatically agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confusion | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...Lamar and Lyal Clark, the football and Freshman basketball coach allowed himself to be led to the Indoor Athletic Building to be taught how to do the calisthenics he was going to give to his classes. But when the two conspirators urged the unfortunate mentor to do a double-flip, he landed on his neck, and brought on the sad condition he is in at present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tyrants of Conditioning Class Get it in the Neck | 4/10/1942 | See Source »

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