Word: flips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stars. When a visitor asked how so many drawings and paintings got sold before the exhibition was a day old, the artist said, "We were peddling them in the streets." Success has not spoiled Sidney Goodman of Philadelphia; it simply makes him uneasy, and hence a trifle flip. At 27, he finds himself one of the most respected and sought-after of the new figure painters...
...Wall Street Journal returned to the firing line: "Perhaps the real meaning of the President's budget is that its enormous figures are all but meaningless. The figures might as well be picked out of the air, and in large measure they have been." Even the Washington Post flip-flopped into hostility: "While budgetary deficits are regarded with increasing tolerance, increases in Government expenditures are viewed with unabated abhorrence." In Philadelphia, the Inquirer felt deep concern: "This country is venturing onto very shaky ground." In Detroit, the Free Press said starkly: "This budget is a horror. It opens...
...midst of a corporate board meeting, the chief executive officer flips a switch, and instantly a screen overhead lights up with the company's profit-and-loss statement, tallied up to the minute. Another flip of the switch, and the screen glows with a graph disclosing just what progress the company has made up to the moment on Contract...
...dive, sophomore Danny Mahoney ignored a triple flip by first-rate Navy diver Art Roper, added an amazing 25 points to the total he scored against Army last week, and achieved a 93.25 point performance. A strong 76 point showing by third place Jeff Lewy indicated that the dive may be a Harvard strong point in the tough meets to come...
...last (or latest) word in talking dolls is Little Miss Echo. Hidden in her tiny tummy is a battery-powered tape recorder. Turn the locket on her bodice one way and Little Miss Echo soaks up anything said in her presence; flip the locket the other way and she sounds off with 25 seconds of back talk. Little girls owning this transistorized Trilby will have a tough time keeping her away from Mommy and Daddy's cocktail parties. American Doll...