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Word: flips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bobby Kinchen was dumped for a five-yard loss on a sweep, and Brown's short flip to Scott Coolidge only carried down to the seven. Then, the junior signal-caller dropped back to pass and suddenly had UMass's whole defensive line clawing at him. He coughed up the ball, the Minutemen recovered, and it was time to start thinking about next week...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Quarterback Riddle Remains Unsolved | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...Debussy's Clair de lune, Cliburn gives the work a warm romantic allure yet never loses hold of its classic-baroque underpinnings. What ingenuity and surprise Cliburn finds in this music! What stunning sound-almost orchestral in its power and variety-he gives it! The miniatures on the flip side are played and recorded every bit as grandly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Classic and Choice | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...tracks, entrants are classed as A, B, C or D drivers according to their best average times (none slower than 62.00). Winners in each class get up to $100 in prizes. Inevitably, in Southern California, the sport attracts non-track stars, notably James Garner, Connie Stevens, Flip Wilson (he didn't flip), David Cassidy and sundry rockers, who to date have won no prizes. Henry ("the Fonz") Winkler went off the track on his first lap. But the best customers, the Malibu managers maintain, are the nonfamous people like the 42-year-old woman who set a track record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Le Mans for the Masses | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...push out Cosby, or any of the other black comedians-Redd Foxx, Dick Gregory, Flip Wilson, Godfrey Cambridge-who achieved fame in the '60s. But Pryor did find room in the spotlight, and by the middle of the decade he was appearing on the TV talk shows and pulling golden gigs in Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A New Black Superstar | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

...made to square with many pre-existing bodies of thought," says Behavior Writer John Leo. "After all, sociobiologists are simply saying there are built-in limits to what man can do. It's the flip side of the liberal view that believes we can make people better simply by improving their environment." After days given to pondering sociobiological research and theories with Reporter-Researcher Gaye Mclntosh, Leo observes: "Spend enough time with it and you'll be looking at your own behavior the way Konrad Lorenz looks at geese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 1, 1977 | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

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