Word: flips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snow-banked Shirley-Savoy Hotel last week, 350 convening delegates of the loosely spliced National Federation of Telephone Workers voted themselves a new name and a new power. The name: Communications Workers of America. The power: to clamp a throttling silence on 30,000,000 U.S. telephones with the flip of a switchboard jack. Both will become effective next June, after N.F.T.W.'s autonomous unions ratify the new constitution, formally turn over their sovereign rights to a new national policy board...
...Crimson's final tally came on a 50-yard scoring play, as Maggone took Kenary's 40-yard flip on the ton and scampered the rest of the way to pay dirt, Kenary again converted...
First score of the year against the Boston boys came in the second period when Jim Kenary's tantalizing shovel passes, climaxed with a long flip to Bob Forsyth, advanced the ball to the Jayvee one. After two unsuccessful line bucks, Kenary tossed to Don Trimble in the flat for six points. Kenary's try for the conversion was wide...
Adams blocked a punt in the endzone in the third period for a safety and two points and led 14 to 7 as the Funsters began their late drives which finally knotted the score. Dave Thompson did most of the carrying to set up Muller's flip to Jim Graham for a touchdown, and swept around the Adams left end for the all-important extra point...
...heavy thinkers. What was needed was lighter, belt-level reading matter-about meat, sex, the movies. Result: by last week 30-year-old Robert C. Ruark, a balding, Southern-accented graduate of the sports pages, was the country's fastest-climbing columnist. His readily readable pieces, studded with flip and flossy phrases, were running in 19 Scripps-Howard papers and 20 others. He was making $500 a week, and had the promise of $40,000 next year, if his list of papers jumped to 100 in six months...