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Word: flips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gittleman introduced me around camp. Winkers have nicknames, but not like Bubba or Moose or Sugar Ray. More like Blue or "L" or Moishe or Ferd. Gittleman then handed me a squidger (a large, thick chip used to flip tiddlywinks around) and said, "Kid, how'd you like to play a game with...

Author: By Jeffrey E. Seifert, | Title: Pumping Iron with World-Class Jocks | 10/31/1981 | See Source »

...from Sears to the Whole Earth are practically national icons, has none.) The most elaborate are put out by Britain and France. Both distribute slick omnibus arms compendia, Britain every year since 1969, France biannually since 1967, that the world's wish-listing generals and defense ministers can flip through with the delight of boys at Christmas time. There are no order forms or suggested retail prices. But whether they prefer the grand, gilded and clothbound British Defence Equipment Catalogue in three volumes (5,000 printed, $150 per set) or France's more workaday, four-volume paperback catalogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Money Can Buy | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

While we rack our brains and flip back through the pages for the secret to Langtry's devotion to the patients of Ward X, we are left wondering how and why this Puritan work ethnic ever snuck onto McCullough's outline...

Author: By Sarah L. Bingham, | Title: Indecent Exposure | 10/17/1981 | See Source »

...flip side to this is that each crew has its moment in the sun, no matter how poorly it does. The boats glide one-by-one under the packed Anderson Bridge, and throngs of enthusiastic well-wishers lend their support to each vessel. Only when the times become known a half-hour after the event ends are the winners determined. For the fans, the results often remain unknown unless they read the agate type in the next day's Globe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Headiness on the Charles, | 10/15/1981 | See Source »

...been expected. With the ground attack failing to come up with any substantial yardage, Cuccia went to the air just twice, and couldn't light the offensive spark that the Crimson needed. The situation changed in the second half, with Cuccia uncorking 23 pass attempts, including one left-handed flip to Callinan good for five yards...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Holy Cross Converts Gridders, 33-19 | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

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