Word: flips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Variety, which is the spice of life, is also the spice of this thin treasure chest. There are old southern ballads, drinking songs and nursery rhymes. To flip through the pages is to feel like a child in a candy store on a lazy spring afternoon...
...medley relay, we did a flip-flop with a couple of swimmers," Harvard coach Ray Essick said yesterday. For Harvard, George Keim swam the butterfly portion instead of Hess Ynetma and Wes Raffel was the anchorman in place of Keim...
...kaleidoscopic show. Sometimes the counters quickly settle into what Conway calls "still lifes" - stable, unchanging figures, including those known in the game's already rich jargon as "bee hives," 9, "snakes," 10 or "long ships," 11 . At other times the patterns may pulse, like the "traffic lights," which flip-flop between patterns 12 and 13. Other figures, including "gliders" and "spaceships," actually move across the board. Some seem to leave clouds of debris behind in their travels ("puffer trains") or climb in a diagonal line ("fuses") and give off clusters of "sparks." One of the more unusual shapes...
...being pro busing, in favor of gun controls and against the state's right-to-work law. When Howell tried to explain his previous stands on those issues-for example, he denied that he favored busing children across city, county and state lines-Godwin scorned him as a "flip-flopper." On Election Day, a record 1,031,063 Virginians voted, and they elected Godwin by 14,653 votes...
Gore Vidal can leave Benedict Arnold alone, but he can not restrain himself from trying to polish the tarnished reputation of his maternal ancestor Burr. He does not try to turn Burr into a hero, but he does attempt to make him into something less two dimensional than the flip side of a coin. For this day and age, Vidal's attempt constitutes a rehabilitation of Burr. No one tries to write Parson Weems-type historical fiction anymore: larger-than-life heroes like Washington are no longer very appealing. To turn a villian into a hero of today's world...