Word: flips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ready-reserve sea stories on hand for the attentive. The sad fact is, you do. But the temptation to satisfy fantasies, the case with which life at sea can be embroidered, make it hard not to lie, and over the winter in House dining halls you finally grow flip about the whole business...
...once a man of integrity." General George Marshall, who was Secretary of Defense during the Korean War, was "the errand boy of the State Department." General Matthew Ridgway, who took over command of United Nations forces after MacArthur's dismissal, was a "chameleon," who "did a complete flip-flop in 24 hours" when he discovered that Washington opposed Mac-Arthur's war strategy. General Maxwell Taylor was "an ambitious man who will never do anything to jeopardize his career...
Zigzag Diplomacy. Sihanouk has executed such a dizzying series of flip-flops in the cold war that he is getting to be known as the man who would rather switch than fight...
...Chicago's Notre Dame Club to accept their "Woman of the Year" award, Dolores Hope introduced her husband of 30 years: "Well, I've either got to use Bob's idiot cards or give you the idiot himself. Bob, you're on." The comic valiantly flip-quipped his way through 30 minutes (the one time he was angry with his wife: "The morning I came downstairs and found her sitting in my spotlight"), but the night belonged to Dolores. Said a telegram to the club from the Hopes' four adopted children: "Thank you for recognizing...
...practice her English. The movie's chief support lies in a wagonload of outdoor gear supposedly borrowed from Abercrombie & Fitch. Of note to sportsmen is a pair of inflatable waders-step into a drop-off and the pants fill with air, quickly ballooning so big that they flip the occupant over in the water, head down. If a man can't get hold of a good line, he's in trouble. So is a comedy, for that matter, and this one steadfastly ignores the Sporting Fisherman's First Rule: if they don't measure...