Word: flips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Laurie Mercier snuck past the Harvard defense to flip in a loose ball with less than 20 minutes left in the game, and the nation's second-ranked team won its 11th game--against one loss--in front of 30 spectators at Memorial Field in Durham...
...cagey old pro maintains an edge, leading Zschau by 15 points in some polls, though a third of the voters remain undecided. Cranston has put his rival on the defensive, grilling pancakes at public appearances while denouncing Zschau's "flip-flops" on issues ranging from Saudi arms sales to environmental legislation. The Republican has recently become more aggressive, attacking Cranston's opposition to the death penalty and accusing him of being soft on international terrorism and indifferent to the drug problem...
...Bertagna recognized that scores of current and former athletes would pick up his Crimson chronicle at the bookstore and flip straight through...
There are some redeeming spots, however, amidst Gabriel's first foray into the blissful world of pop. "Red Rain," though hampered by insufferable plasma images, conjures up memories of past highlights like "San Jacinto" and "Here Comes The Flood." On the flip side of the disk, "Mercy Street" successfully tiptoes the line between Muzak and minimalism on the strength of poetic images like "Mercy Street in your daddy's arms again." While they don't compare with anything on Gabriel's third eponymous album, these two songs at least show that the former art-rocker remembers something from his past...
...culture of quickness has inspired smaller operators to accelerate their pace as well. In Los Angeles, for example, time-conscious consumers can flip through the telephone book to find Speedy Attorney Service, Fast Glass & Screens, Rapid Brake Service, Instant Wedding Chapel and Swift Secretarial Service. The dry-cleaning listings of any phone directory look like a thesaurus entry for the word fast, including the omnipresent 1-Hour Martinizing shops and archrivals with such names as Prompt Cleaners, Presto Cleaners and One-Hour Lusterizing...