Word: flips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flip side, the penalty killing unit has done a superb job all season, tallying a total of five goals to the power play unit's six goals. The penalty killing team, composed of captain Brad Konik, senior Peter McLauglin, senior Tommy Holmes, and freshman Ben Storey, has successfully kept the puck out of their zone and provided senior goalie Tripp Tracy with a clear view of the puck...
...when I was a boy and we played touch football on the frozen turf and came to the table sweaty and in high spirits and kept our eyes open for flying food. My sister had good moves; you'd look away for an instant, and she'd flip her knife and park a pat of butter on your forehead. Nobody throws food at our table now, but in the giddiness of the festive moment, I have held a spoonful of cranberry for a moment and measured the distance to Uncle Earl, his gleaming head, like El Capitan, bent over...
...African Americans. Though Dole is one of their own generation, seniors, the people most concerned about Medicare, tilt strongly to Clinton. So do women, who favor him over Dole, 53% to 37%. Dole wins the men by a smaller margin, 48% to 43%. With Powell gone, African Americans flip overwhelmingly back to Clinton...
...flip side is to denigrate what we have, a variation on Groucho Marx's refusal to belong to any club with such low standards that it would have him for a member. Abraham Lincoln in 1860 entered polite America's imagination cartooned as an ungainly ape, an uncouth backwoods savage. In the 1932 election campaign, even some liberals appraised Franklin Roosevelt as a feckless mama's boy from the silver-spoon Hudson River gentry, a man without character or principles. "An amiable Boy Scout," wrote Walter Lippman...
...infinitum if not ad nauseam, about the blackguard patriarch, the philandering but beloved President and his glamorous wife, their handsome son risen from the ashes of an aimless, if active, life to become a magazine editor. We know of their loves, their losses, their lapses and their favorite dressmakers. Flip through new memoirs by Gore Vidal and Benjamin Bradlee, and there they are again, appearing in vignettes that will be eagerly processed by a curious public...