Word: flips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author sounds like she loves her characters. They are a part of American folklore, the general culture and the Black one, a link which Morrison insists on. Son is placed in the legion of "undocumented men" like Huck Finn, Nigger Jim, Caliban, Staggerice and John Henry. Jadine becomes the flip side of a stereotype portraying light-skinned, long haired Black women. Her-Blackness and her womanhood are two gifts of beauty and richness to Morrison. Black women give birth to legends; their ghosts live forever as long as skins bear traces of this mystical parentage...
...jackets to develop upper body strength. Randy invented special arm paddles which create water resistance while correcting strokes, and Eddie trained his Texas swimmers in a 16 2 3-yd.-long pool this year so that they could get used to swimming at the race speed created by frequent flip turns...
...midway through the first period, the Friars bolted to a 2-0 lead they never relinquished. Tournament MVP Kurt Kleinendorst slapped a loose puck past Cornell's Brian Hayward for a power-play tally at 9:34, and Steve Evangelista doubled the lead exactly 20 seconds later with a flip past Hayward's left side...
Norton reached her puck first, broke in on net, deked left, but couldn't beat a sprawling Ellis on the stick side. Meanwhile DeAngelis, who replaced the first Dartmouth shooter Paula Joyce, made a right-left-right face, and managed to flip the puck by the left of the prone Tate...
...currency is diminishing even faster, at a geometric rate. Thus the conventional wisdom, that what goes up must come down, may be false physics." But who knows for sure? Says Goodman: "One of my old maxims runs: Financial genius is a rising market. Booms create heroes. Someone who can flip a coin to come up heads ten times in a row will be asked not only about his technique of flipping nickels but about his opinions on events in Washington...