Word: flips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quiet pride and the air of hanging back a bit on the vocals in favor of his accomplished banjo--and his sons. One of them, who introduced the songs, has a pleasant Dylanesque drawl to his voice, and both of them can, as they say, play the flat flip out of a guitar. The audience got off most on the inevitable Foggy Mountain Breakdown, and on Friday they finally made the Revue come back twice to face those massed lights and hanging planters. The Scruggs had people moving...
...chance to narrow down the Derby field in the Wood Memorial in New York in mid-April, that race had to be split into two sections to handle the overflow of entrants. One winner, Rube the Great, is considered a strong Derby contender, but the other, Flip Sal, is largely untested. The only horse to show solid promise thus far is Judger, winner of the Florida Derby and the Blue Grass Stakes with come-from-behind spurts down the homestretch...
...Flip-Flop. Win or lose, Sparling decided to stick with Nixon and issued a surprise invitation to the President to enter the fight himself. Nixon spent a day whooping up Republican support in the safe rural areas, acting at times as though he were the candidate while his host stood aside and listened. Nixon apparently helped Sparling a bit as a campaigner-but he had already lost him the race as an issue. Traxler took 51.4% of the vote, a startling flip-flop from the results in 1972, when the Republicans captured 59.3% of the ballots in the district...
...Early in "We" Shapiro quotes me claiming I was ahead of my time, that I originated student activism, and so on: that is he makes me sound like a real jerk. This is the "communists are megelomaniacs" bait. However a little later on, Shapiro does a complete flip-flop and, as if he'd never hinted I was so self-centered, says: "Jared strongly dislikes talking about himself." Shapiro then goes on to attack me for this, saying I've dissolved my personality into the party, that I give "we" answers to "me" questions, and so on. This...
...contestants were going to flip for the first game of the final action, but John wanted to play last anyway, so the idea of the toss was thrown out. The final game began...