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Word: flips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angeles to court support in Louisiana: "This is a campaign that emerges as it flows forward, and each day I'll assess what the realistic possibilities are ... It's hard to tell just what all this means." Then he accused Carter of "all of a sudden doing a flip-flop" because he had accepted endorsements from Wallace and Daley. Asked recently whom he would vote for in November if he were not a candidate, Brown said laconically: "Oh, I don't know. I might not vote at all." Frank Mankiewicz, a Carter fan, cracked that Jerry Brown's performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: STAMPEDE TO CARTER | 6/21/1976 | See Source »

Divorced. Flip Wilson, 42, jive-cracking comedian of assorted aliases, including the soul-searching, money-grabbing Rev. Leroy of the Church of What's Happening Now; and Blondell Pittman Wilson; after 17 years of common-law marriage, two sons, two daughters; in Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 31, 1976 | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

Black's "Owl and Flower" also sets an instrumentalist on stage. The guitarist Keeset-tanamock strums for roughly the middle third of the piece. Huddled down, Black and John Hofstetter prance in circles, teasing one another. Black cuts unexpectedly to the outside of the circle, Hofstetter surprises herwith a flip over his shoulder. Black uses the same loose athletic style Gray called on in sections of "Passing Through" and Soll in bits of "Lunch Break...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: At the Still Point | 5/18/1976 | See Source »

This revision resulted in a complete flip-flop of Mather's ranking in what has become the House crowding standings. According to the new adjusted figures, Mather appears to be the most crowded House...

Author: By Steven Schorr, | Title: Collier and Mather Square Off | 5/1/1976 | See Source »

...soccer kings get mauled in a ludicrous film match between the prize thinkers of Greece and Germany, in which the Greeks win by a head-thumping, last-minute goal from the great dome of Aristotle. After a trying day in court, two justices (Eric Idle and Neil Innes) flip their wigs and throw off the robes of high judicial office to reveal themselves in black silky feminine underthings. Apparently, a case of habeas corpus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Comic Karate | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

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