Word: flips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, for a few minutes, hope rose anew Borchard, scoring consistently on his patented driving flip-flop shot, led a surge that brought the Crimson to within three, 68-65, with three minutes remaining...
...tourists who rubberneck at Foucheval's statue are characteristic of another problem: they are funny in a slapstick way, just as Foucheval is often funny in a flip way. But comedy added to philosophy does not automatically produce tragicomedy: Morrow has made no synthesis of tone. It is a miracle that the audience can appreciate the mood of Moira's marvelous waltz scene. The last act is also dramatically outrageous, despite fine touches of lighting and staging...
...most cultured (urbane, polished) Americans are used to earthier speech in fiction and drama. According to Merriam-Webster, even ain't is "used orally in most parts of the U.S. by many cultivated speakers." Nor could the editors fail to dig cool cats who make stacked chicks flip. Without drips and pads and junkies, who bug victims for bread to buy horse for a fix, the dictionary of 1961 would not be finalized...
...nation in a hurry, the results are impressive. Kansans, for example, can flip from Wichita to Topeka (137.7 miles) over the Kansas Turnpike in an hour and 50 minutes (v. 4½ hr. over the old 170.4-mile highway); Massachusetts truckers can make the New York State line from Boston in 159 minutes over the Massachusetts Turnpike (v. 245 minutes over Routes 9, 20 and 102); the 30-mile Dallas-Fort Worth Turnpike has cut travel time from 90 minutes to about 35. A New York state legislator can drive from Manhattan to Albany in less than three hours...
...etchings as a lure for the nubile. His costly equipment consisted of two speakers, two amplifiers, a special cartridge for his record player, as well as an assortment of optional gear. His stereo library was comprised mainly of trick noises and demonstration records -drum recitals, incoming tides (on the flip side: outgoing tides), the sound of an olive dropping into a martini, an album called Music to Listen By, a Ping-pong game in which the illusion of the moving ball was vivid enough to make a listener's head swivel...