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Word: flips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what of Flip? Bermuda was none of those things for Flip, who met Mary on his 23rd birthday. He called her pirate's treasure (a sunken chest). but Flip thought a lot of her. Drinks at the Terrace, dancing at Elbow, and then romantic walks at Horseshoe Bay. This girl Mary could even keep up with Flip and his quick bike. The week moved toward a climax, and Flip talked to her in terms of future get-togethers. Then came the big last night, and Mary flashed her engagement ring at Flip. Think what Bobby Vinton could do with material...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Why Do the Birds Go On Singing? | 4/17/1971 | See Source »

...Judy Sullivan McGuggart lefthanded, or did you flip the cover photo? The stitches are backward. Trust you are not the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 5, 1971 | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

...people involved. First comes the dutiful wife (Jessica Tandy) with her 50-year badge of marital honor. Then there is the earthy, pleasure-giving mistress (Colleen Dewhurst), the sympathetic lawyer friend (George Voskovec), a hostile daughter (Madeleine Sherwood) and a remorse-laden son (lames Ray). Finally, there is a flip nurse (Betty Field) and the trusted family physician (Neil Fitzgerald), who has been something like a brother to the dying man. As the characters talk, a mounting pile of reportage -without even a grain of redeeming insight-gradually buries the audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Club Bore | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

...suppose the day had to come when normal students leading a sane, healthy life would be labeled conservatives, and their home, in this case Schuyler Hall, compared with a cloister. May we freedom-loving Schuylerites rise up in protest against such flip comparisons, while still shunning "radical activism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 22, 1971 | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

...that as my Greyhound pulled out of the terminal after Saturday's consolation game, while some new snow was coming down, that I had this irresistible tendency to flip the bird right through that dirty window to Syracuse. Sure it was immature, but even if we're only young once we can be immature forever. And the immaturity of the act was so clearly outweighed by its emotional appropriateness. Besides, how much can an impending eight-hour bus trip enhance your perception of good taste? So I flipped the bird...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the B?nnies | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

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