Word: flips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every Thursday night at 8 o'clock thousands of Minneapolis and St. Paul housewives flip on their television sets to watch a video tape of the horse races at St. Petersburg's Sunshine Park. Their object is not to collect on a $2 bet but to match the numbers of the winning horses with numbers on cards that they picked up at their local National Food supermarket. The prizes are trading stamps-1,000 for a win, 500 for a place, 100 for a show...
Kids who like Lassie will flip for Flipper. Dolphins, indeed, are likely to rate very high on Christmas lists this year. Parents who contemplate trying to keep one in a backyard pool should bear in mind that a dolphin eats about 15 Ibs. of live fish...
...prayer is a church of silence. Enter almost any Roman Catholic church in Manhattan or Mantua or Manila: the priest at Mass will be standing at the altar, his back to the congregation, mumbling almost inaudibly in Latin, while the laymen in the pews silently finger rosaries or flip through the pages of their missals to find out what prayer the celebrant has reached...
Toys in the Attic. Playwright Lillian Hellman is like a small, scared Racine. Her lines flip into the mind like well-aimed darts. Her scenes stack like well-designed dishes. Unhappily, there is seldom much nourishment in them. Hellman speaks her mind brilliantly but opens her heart rarely. When the moment requires feeling, she too often offers irony; when the theme invites tragedy, she resorts to melodrama; when the problem demands experiment, she is careful to be commercial. She is exciting but not moving. She writes superbly about sex but badly about love. She creates grand characters but not real...
Several days later, when Williams was driving to the picket line, another car full of white men attempted to flip him off the road. Williams managed to work both cars into a ditch by the roadside. The crowd around the cars started screaming: "Kill the niggers! Pour gasoline on the niggers!" The driver of the other car approached with a baseball bat, saying "Nigger, what...