Word: flips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Here is one WASP who sat up too late, his imagination captured by your story on Flip Wilson...
...shape during a White House briefing on foreign trade last April. It was conducted by a scholarly looking supersalesman, Peter George Peterson, who three months earlier had resigned as chairman of Chicago's Bell & Howell to become Nixon's adviser on foreign economic affairs. Using slides and flip charts, Peterson forcefully drove home to the President for the first time the seriousness of the nation's slipping trade position and one of its causes, the decline in U.S. productivity compared with that of its competitors. Nixon began using phrases from the presentation almost immediately, and in August...
Mike: How the hell do we get from one hour of your solid laughter at Flip Wilson to another of your broadside attacks against all blacks...
Mike: But you said black Flip Wilson wasn't as funny as white Bob Hope. Or are you gonna tell me you don't think of them as black an' white...
Archie: You're takin' what I said out of contest, like ya always do, Mr. Big Liberal. All I meant was, bein' colored, Flip had a natural advantage of entertainin' being in his blood...