Word: flips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contains no people, at least not the kind that inhabit the world. Rather does this craftsman of the sex comedy take into his delicate hands again the familiar set of dolls and sends them whirling on the polished floor, kidding, insulting, wallowing in the tart and tasty intoxication of flip sophisms and casual sex play. The effect in startlingly funny...
Then the plane may flip in a violent roll, or snap into a dive as the wing loses its lift. Racked by enormous forces, the plane may suddenly disintegrate in midair...
...title of his Win the Peace Committee were a spate of suspicious actions. One of its founders was the C.I.O. Electrical Workers' Julius Emspak, also a sponsor of the American Peace Mobilizers, who had picketed the White House early in 1941 with cries of warmongering, then neatly flip-flopped the day Germany invaded Russia. One of the speakers at the inaugural convention was a member of Greece's Communist-led EAM; others were from the far left wing of the U.S. Congress: Washington's Hugh de Lacy, California's Ellis Patterson...
...Molly? As they have every morning for the past four years, Denverites lapped up Molly's flip and saucy column with their breakfast coffee. More than anything else, "Dear Mrs. Mayfield" has helped step up the New's circulation from a doddering 40,000 to more than 86,000, challenging enough to keep the Denver Post (circ. 192,991) on its toes. Besides dispensing free advice, Molly collects snapping turtles, pianos and goldfish from people who don't want them for those who do. During the war she gathered diaper pins for G.I. wives, once collected...
...conference ended with reporters leafing doubtfully through their notes, looking for something to "pin" on Stassen. The room cleared and Stassen downed a Manhattan, which he had previously moved carefully out of the photographers' range, with a dexterous flip of the right wrist...